Experiencing nature and society. A multi-sited-study of marine biological and ethnographic field science.

28 April 2022, by CSS

Photo: Tanja Bogusz

The research project Experiencing Nature and Society. A multi-sited investigation of marine biological and ethnographic field science, led by Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz has started on 1st April at the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS). In addition, Nane Pelke, M.A. and Kirsa Gunkel, B.A. are working in the project. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the project is endowed with more than 500,000 euros and will run for three years. The focus of the study is on the extent to which the concept of field and field research, once transferred from the natural sciences to social research, can be made empirically and theoretically productive as a linking analytical tool between the natural and social sciences. To this end, the understanding and practice of field research at various social science and marine biology research institutions in France, Norway, Germany, and on overseas expeditions will be examined, and co-laborative research concepts will be developed together with natural science researchers. Through a systematic combination of empirical study phases and social and socio-theoretical explorations, the project aims to provide both a conceptual contribution to the social sciences and a concrete proposal for overcoming the nature/culture dichotomy in the face of climate change and species extinction in the knowledge society. Project partners include the Paris Museum of Natural History (MNHN), the Marine Biology Station Concarneau / Brittany (also MNHN), EHESS Paris, the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) and the Leibniz Institute for Biodiversity Change Analysis (formerly CENAK) at the Universität Hamburg. You can learn more soon on the project-related website!

Contact: tanja.bogusz@uni-hamburg.de