Martin Hultman

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Martin Hultman, Professor of Sociology, Gothenburg University, visits Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures to give a talk.

Abstract

Critical ecofeminist work has for decades pointed out that objectification of nature, hierarchisation of men and women, as well as separation between bodies, privatisation of property and commodifying life; all structures industrial modern fossil fuelled societies and underpin climate emergency. Mainstream education is part of upholding such minority worldviews. Calling out such power structures, demanding research to reveal toxic-, industrial/breadwinner-, and petromasculinities is all good and important – but what happens when we experiment with pedagogy that is designed to also transform such structures, identities and praxes? The seminar moves along the theoretical tradition of ecological masculinities (e.g. Hultman 2016; Hultman & Pulé, 2018) and discuss an empirically analysis of un-learning and (im)possibilities of decolonisation via the study group Flow Feelers.

Imagining and Co-Creating Futures

In a world that seems caught in a crisis-ridden present, there is a need to reawaken our capacity to collectively imagine, make...

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