Inequality and social-environmental justice
Our world is extremely unequal, more so than it has ever been before. Many privileged people see the world as a place of unlimited connection and possibility, making use of myriad national and international opportunities for work, leisure, and (tourist and other) interactions with nature and other people. The majority of the world’s population, however, lives in a world of strict borders, boundaries and a deep lack of possibilities.
At SDC, we study such inequalities to understand where they come from, who benefits, and how inequality is maintained and legitimated. In doing so, we pay specific attention to how possibilities and boundaries shift between the local and the global, the urban and rural, the powerful and marginalized and between crisis and normality. These possibilities and boundaries are studied at levels of the practical, material reality and around knowledge and science, in order to understand their consequences for the processes and structures of development and change.
