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is Professor Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University.

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Looking back on the second Leiden Anthropology Conference

When CADS convened the first Leiden Anthropology Conference in 2020, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – home to 57 people – aimed to create a community for the one hundred anthropologists or so working in the Leiden and The Hague faculties, museums, research institutes, and PhD programs.

Cristina Grasseni + 4 others • 30-04-2026

Sustainability

Why we need to co-create knowledge for sustainability – and why this is easier said than done

Recent debates on energy transitions and poverty illustrate the social ecological complexities of sustainability problems. These cannot be tackled by single academic disciplines – nor by academics alone. In this blog, Marja Spierenburg reflects on the need for, and challenges of ‘transdisciplinarity’.

Marja Spierenburg • 24-01-2022