[Commlist] Jan 2025 Summer School on Discourses of Sustainable Transitions (in South Africa)

Rachel Lara van der Merwe is organising a summer school in South Africa 
this January 2025 that might be of interest to many of you and/or your 
students. The school is a collaboration between the University of 
Groningen and Stellenbosch University.

During this summer school, participants will study the relationship 
between discourse, worldview, ontology and ethics, particularly in 
regard to questions of just sustainability transitions (in particular 
just water / food / energy nexus transitions). How are arguments for 
more sustainable ways to live on this planet being mediated to 
audiences? Who is doing the mediating, and how does the message change, 
depending on the speaker and audience?

The goal of the week is to learn the impact that discourse has on 
material culture and then put this into practice by working with 
societal stakeholders to develop powerful communicative platforms using 
rhetoric that is both effective and aligns with their underlying values.

For example, how can an organic farmer, committed to decolonial 
ecological values, win agricultural grants from the government without 
resorting to capitalistic rhetoric?

Learn more and register here: 
https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/winter_schools/winter-schools-2023-2024/discourses-of-sustainability-transitions/ 

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