ECLAS is excited to announce that one of its researchers, dr. Irene van Oorschot, has recently received a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. She will engage in a 3-year research project at the Life Sciences and Society Lab at the KU Leuven. Drawing on her work on knowing and valuing practice (see e.g. her recently published monograph The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice, Cambridge University Press), her fellowship will ethnographically research how the environmental management paradigm of ‘resilience’ is done in actual environmental management practices and chart the way climate change is rendered material and anticipated in such practices.
This research project was prepared and made possible by the ECLAS research voucher, giving her time to engage in preliminary analyses and write her proposal. ‘I am grateful to ECLAS for supporting me in writing this research application; without it, I would not have had the resources to write a competitive research proposal.’ However, she also mobilized her teaching experience to write the proposal: ‘teaching the interdisciplinary course Climate Crisis together with dr. G. Servant has allowed me to engage with cutting-edge and interdisciplinary perspectives in the environmental humanities and social sciences, and I think this combination made my proposal especially competitive.’
Please find a more detailed project description here; meanwhile, Irene’s academic profile can be found here or here.