SAFE AND JUST EARTH IN THE ANTHROPOCENE – WHAT IS ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE?

PRESENTER: MARJUT PARTANEN-HERTELL

Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 27th of June, Thursday  11:00-13:00
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and ecology – environmental issues and relationships between organisms, including humans, and their living context
TYPE: Presentation with some action exercises
ROOM:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 24
TAGS: Sociodrama and Ecology, June27 Morning
ABSTRACT:

In this presentation ecological scientific facts are combined to a creative process with sociodramatic and other action exercises. After this session participants will be able to:

  • explore and illustrate scientific facts with some action exercises and make science alive trough sociodrama
  • understand the present ecological situation in the Anthropocene and see their own place in that
  • describe what Ecological Justice means and identify their own role connected to that
  • define part of the different views and stakeholders emerging on the field of ecological justice
  • strengthen their abilities to take responsibility to support the world as we know it now.

Marjut Partanen-Hertell. 2011. Sociodrama in Finland – an environmental context. In R. Wiener, D. Adderly, & K. Kirk (eds.), Sociodrama in a changing world. www.lulu.com
Johan Rockström, et al. 2023. Safe and just Earth system boundaries, Nature, vol. 619, pages102–111. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

As environmental engineer and sociodramatist Marjut worked in the Finnish Environment Institute for 40 years with regional and international projects. She is former chair of the inter-governmental working group on Public Awareness and Environmental Education of HELCOM in the Baltic Sea area, and Finland’s former Representative on the Management Committee of the environmental financial instrument EU/LIFE. She lectures in international conferences, and is an author or co-author of several books, latest Sociodrama in a Changing World (2011). At present her focus is on the ecological change of the Earth.

M.S. (Env Tech), Information Scientist, Psychodrama and sociodrama trainer TEP (Nordic Board of Examiners), Supervisor STOry (Finnish Association of Supervisors), Tele ’Drama Practitioner (CTP – L3), Member of ASGPP and IAGP, former chair of the Finnish Psychodrama Trainers, FEPTO Network Group for Climate Change, former Member on the Board of the Finnish Association of Civil Engineers RIL, Trainer and examiner at the Helsinki Psychodrama Institute.