The podcast 'Planetary Choices' is created and produced by the Research Center for New Critical Politics and Governance, located at Aarhus University, Denmark.
The concept of 'The Planetary' has gained increasing traction in almost all scientific disciplines. From physics, to litterature, to history, law and economics - planetary thinking and policy making is taking more sophisticated shapes, amounting to an emerging new paradigm.
In season 1, called "Mapping the Planetary", we map and assess the concept of the planetary, where we stand today and in which direction planetary thinking and activism may develop in the future.
With this podcast, we also intend to explore scholarly research through an alternative venue of dissemination that allows for aural intimacy, faster publishing and full open access. As each episode contributes to a larger question investigated throughout a season, every episode becomes a data point on its own, consequently making "Planetary Choices" a place of output and on-going research.
Join us and explore the big questions of our planet!
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Hagen Schulz-Forberg is a professor at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, where he also coordinates the MA in International Studies and directs the Center for New Critical Politics and Governance.
In his work, he prefers taking a conceptual approach, as he writes on questions of economic thought, global governance, neoliberalism, European integration and the new planetary paradigm.
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With MAs from Kent State University, Michigan State University, and University of Pennsylvania, James Quilligan began his career as a program supervisor with the United States Labor Department in 1976. In the 1980s–1990s, he worked in various roles as monetary analyst, researcher, publicist, and speechwriter. With his experience in asset value analysis, he became a monetary consultant for governments in the Middle East and Africa in this same period.
In 2000, he began using carrying capacity metrics to calculate the thermodynamic value of monetary currencies within specific bioregions. Over the past two decades, Quilligan’s work in biophysical economics has led to various positions within management, research, and writing.
- Currently he joins us at the Research Center for New Critical Politics and Governance as our co-host, while exploring the themes of the Planetary.
Amanda Janoo is an economic policy expert, currently working as the Economics and Policy lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll).
With over a decade of experience working with governments and international development institutions around the world. Her work aims to build just and sustainable economies through goal-oriented and participatory policy design processes.
Prior to joining WEAll, Amanda worked for the United Nations and the African Development Bank as an industrial policy and structural transformation expert. As a Fulbright researcher, she explored the relationship between international trade and informal employment. She graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Development Studies and heralds from the green mountain state of Vermont, in the USA.
Andreas Lind is a senior advisor at the Danish climate think tank CONCITO. Here, he leads CONCITO’s work on planetary boundaries in CONCITO’s Global Division. Previously based in CONCITO’s Climate Future Lab, he has also worked on topics such as the green labour market, social acceptance in the Nordic countries, and Nordic pathways towards climate neutrality.
Cecilie is a senior advisor at the Danish climate think tank CONCITO’s Global Division, where she focuses on creating new solutions and developing new policies within the planetary boundaries.
Trained as a human geographer, Friis has more than 10-years of experience doing research on land use changes, globalization and sustainability with a particular focus on distal connections in consumption and production of land-based products.
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James Quilligan began his early career as a program supervisor with the United States Labor Department in 1976. In the 1980s–1990s, he worked in various roles as monetary analyst, researcher, publicist, and speechwriter. During the 1990s–2000s, Quilligan served as a manager and speechwriter for international organizations. With his experience in asset value analysis, he became a monetary consultant for governments in the Middle East and Africa in this same period. In 2000, he began using carrying capacity metrics to calculate the thermodynamic value of monetary currencies within specific bioregions.
Currently James is also our co-host at the Center for New Critical Politics and Governance at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Jussi Parikka is a professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University where he is the co-director of the Environmental Media and Aesthetics research program.
Parikka also holds an affiliation with University of Southampton (Winchester School of Art). His recent books include the co-authored Lab Book (2022), Operational Images (2023), and the co-authored Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (2024).
Nils Gilman is Senior Advisor to the Berggruen Institute, Executive Editor of Berggruen Press, and Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine.
Gilman has previously worked as Associate Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, as Research Director and scenario planner at the Monitor Group and Global Business Network, and at various enterprise software companies.
Gilman is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2004), Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (2011), and Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises (2024). He holds a Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate in History from U.C. Berkeley.
Or Rosenboim is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna and a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence. She is a historian of twentieth century international political thought who published studies on the history of global and international thinking in Europe and the United States.
Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK). He works on critical theory, history of technology, aesthetics, and critical military studies.
In addition to being lead editor of the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP) and its book series (Duke UP), he co-edits with Jussi Parikka the books series Technicities (Edinburgh UP). His most recent book, co-authored with John Beck, is Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-garde (Duke UP 2020).