Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Year: 2025

  • Doing research as if participants mattered

    Almost all qualitative and quantitative research into human society involves the participation of other humans. However, they are frequently rendered passively in research outputs as ‘research subjects’. In this post, Helen Kara, argues that the way we define participants in research is outdated and presents three ways in which research participants can be made more central…

  • The Mushroom at the en of the world

    This book tells of travels with mushrooms in order to explore indeterminacy and the conditions of precarity: life without the promise of stability. I once read that when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, thousands of Siberians, suddenly deprived of state guarantees, ran to the woods to collect mushrooms. These are not the mushrooms Anna…

  • Decolonizing research methods

    Linda Tuhiwai Smith remains the central reference in any serious discussion of the decolonization of research. This post grows out of listening her in this video lecture, but also out of my own experiences in the field. What follows is not a systematic reconstruction of her work, but an attempt to expand some of the…