Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments

TAPESTRY

Call

  • T2S

Project Website

https://tapestry-project.org/ TAPESTRY

Principal Investigator

Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom

Partners

Synne Movik, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Devanathan Parthasarathy Indian Institute of Technology, India Nobuhito Ohte, Kyoto University, Japan Lars Otto Naess, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom Shilpi Srivastava, Institute of Development, United Kingdom Hans Nicola Adam, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Darley Jose Kjosavik, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, India Narayan C Narayanan, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Rohan D'Souza Kyoto University, Japan Upasona Ghosh, Indian Institute of Health Management Research, India Pankaj Joshi, Sahjeevan, India Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development at Independent University Bangladesh, Bangladesh V. Vijay Kumar, Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology, India Mihir Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India Nathan Oxley, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom Jai Bhadgaonkar, Bombay 61, India Pallab De, Caritas, India Ranjan Francis Rozario, Caritas, Bangladesh Shibaji Bosae, Institute of Health Management & Research University, Norway Terry Cannon, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom

Funders

  • ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), ISSC (International Social Science Council), JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), RCN (Research Council of Norway)

Project Objective

The objective of TAPESTRY is to examine how transformation may arise from below in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty TAPESTRY's research questions include: Q1. How are climate change related uncertainties affecting the well-being and identity of local people in marginalised environments? Q2. How are people reimagining uncertainty and transformation in these marginal environments? Q3. How are emerging initiatives, alliances and practices in the patches addressing these challenges? What forms of praxis take place? Q4. What forms of co-production give rise to T2S in the context of climate change uncertainty? What are the trade-offs, convergences and divergences? Q5. Which drivers, principles and alliances enable or hinder the scaling up and out of these processes to achieve wider transformation?

Call Objective

T2S has two major objectives: To develop understanding of and promote research on transformations to sustainability which are of significant social, economic and policy concern throughout the world and of great relevance to both academics and stakeholders; To build capacity, overcome fragmentation and have a lasting impact on both society and the research landscape by cultivating durable research collaboration across multiple borders, disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners and societal partners. This includes facilitating the development of new research collaborations with parts of the world which are not often involved in large-scale international research efforts, notably low- and middle-income countries.

Region

  • Asia, Europe

Country

  • Bangladesh, India, Japan, Norway, United Kingdom

Duration

46 months

Call Date

July 6, 2017

Project Award Date

April 26, 2018