Sabaheta Ramčilović-Suominen

@JustSaba@ecoevo.social
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Associate Research Professor and Academy of 🇫🇮 Fellow at Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke

Researcher and advocate for globlal environmental justice, anticolonial, anticapitalist and postgrowth futures. All about just transformations.

I apply #politicalecology approach to unpack #green and #bioeconomy interventions and how local communities and small-scale farmers engage with them; mostly in #Ghana and #Laos. Also EU green politics.
https://www.luke.fi/en/experts/sabaheta-ramciloviksuominen

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Posts aboutGreen #politics, #degrowth, #climate, #extractivism, human-nature relations, #dispossession, #displacement...
Hashtags#EnvironmentalJustice #Transformations #JustTransformations #Decoloniality #Decolonisation #Degrowth #JustTransitions #Bioeconomy #Climate #Biodiversity #GlobalSouth #Gender #Feminism #GlobalNorth #postcolonial #posdevelopment #development
Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenNov 20, 2023
Last Tuesday with Ruben Vezzoni we presented Luke report: "Finnish #Bioeconomy #BeyondGrowth". It's now online! https://jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024/554043
The recording is also now ready to watch: https://youtu.be/_pOSGoTi-bM?si=F6JliTyTFAYTkO5v, where in addition to the report, you can hear abt. many other👌studies & projects at Luke.
The Finnish Bioeconomy Beyond Growth - Jukuri

Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenNov 13, 2023
Tomorrow me and Ruben Vezzoni will be presenting our new report to be published by @LukeFinlandInt “The Finnish Bioeconomy beyond growth”. It will be a brief presentation (20 min). You can register at:
luke.fi/en/node/23715 It starts at 9! #degrowth #justice #bioeconomy
Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenSep 11, 2023
Gurminder K BhambraSep 11, 2023

Futuring Critical Theory - International Conference
13–15 Sept 2023, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, the Institute for Social Research (IfS) is hosting an international conference to determine where Critical Theory stands & to reorient it in the light of the existential challenges of our times.

I'm very much looking forward to the conversations that will ensue ...

https://fct2023.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/start.html

Start - fct2023.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de

Show threadSabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenAug 11, 2023
We reflect on the lack of radical transformations within the bioeocnomy agendas, finding that in all case countries "land use adjustments have contributed to the strengthening of the state- and investor-led bioeconomy, but from the citizenry perspective this development has raised new concerns. The growth-focused bioeconomy conception and the neoliberal economic order it supports produce a conventional incentive structure and an institutional inertia to transformative change"
Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenAug 11, 2023

Happy to share our new paper "Neoliberal pathways to the #bioeconomy: Forest land use institutions in Chile, Finland, and Laos" Open Access:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934123001363

By #JuhaHiedanpää, #MattiSalo and myself. #JustGlobe project.

Taking an institutional perspective to land use planning & change, we explore the different varieties of neoliberalism in relations to bioeconomy; from Utopian neoliberalism in #Chile, to Authoritarian neoliberalism in #Laos and the Nordic variety in Finland.

Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenJun 14, 2023

New paper out! #EpistemicJustice #Biocolonialism #Bioeconomy #IndigenousKnowledge #Bioepistemicide #Amazon #SettlerColonialism

https://t.co/BNqG2il3li
• Bioeconomy may drive knowledge appropriation that further settler colonialism.
• Addressing the colonial engagements is central to avoid epistemicide.
...
Forms of knowledge that differ from dominant ‘Western’ knowledge are either not recognized, or are misused for land reoccupation and knowledge appropriation.

Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenMay 23, 2023

On the way back from #BeyondGrowth2023 conference I wrote a blog for #EnvironmentalPolitics journal. It's my impressions, so please take it as such. For me it was a mixture of feelings and tension btw. hope and achievement & the opposite. I write about #eurocentrism & #colonial mindset that remains unshaken.

The reflectiond of the panel 3. "Beyond Growth Beyond Europe" is missing from the blog, because I spotted it online only afterwards 😞

https://environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/the-radically-unradical-beyond-growth-conference-disclosing-eurocentric-and-colonial-narratives/

Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenMay 14, 2023

In preparation for the #BeyondGrowth 2023, this report by the European Parliamentary Research Service discusses some of the tools for moving beyond growth.

Happy to see my own work on #justice #transformations and #bioeconomy being considered there: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)747108

Beyond growth: Pathways towards sustainable prosperity in the EU | Think Tank | European Parliament

Beyond growth: Pathways towards sustainable prosperity in the EU

Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenMay 9, 2023
David Weir May 8, 2023

Finnish local train station checklist:

✔️ Station sign
✔️ Car park
✔️ Bike rack (slightly rusted)
✔️ Litter bin
...
✔️ Abandoned sauna kiuas

#trains #station

Sabaheta Ramčilović-SuominenApr 30, 2023

The tyranny of inclusion taken to another level:
"The Homage of the Peers" replaced with "The Homage of the People".

Not only "Everyone in the Abbey" but "Everyone in the World" invited to swear their allegiance to the King.

"So help me God" indeed!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/public-invited-to-swear-their-allegiance-as-king-is-crowned?s=09

Public invited to swear their allegiance as king is crowned

British subjects asked to form a ‘chorus of a million voices’ and make oath of loyalty while watching service

The Guardian