Just another day,
In another man’s world,
Not mine...
With 2012 coming to an end I want to look into the rear view mirror just a little bit. A little looking back on what I’ve done over this last year? Going through my notebook it seems that it has been a lively year. I’ve presented my research ideas at various occasions, at the IVM/VU University, at an ICCWaDS workshop at ZEF in Bonn, at the Water@Leeds group, to Ken Oye (MIT), to WUR-ILW students, at the Bangladesh stakeholder workshop in Dhaka and of course meetings with the WOTRO project team. Eventually this has resulted in a finished research proposal that I’ve submitted to the WASS research school. In all this has been a very inspiring period in which I’ve navigated across many epistemological positions. Though this is a wearing, confusing and in the eyes of some utterly useless (I still don’t agree) process, this eventually resulted in a approach for my research that I think is quite useful (and very exciting!). The two main sources of inspiration are Paul Feyerabend’s notion of Abundance and the idea of Ontological Politics (see e.g. the work by Annemarie Mol and John Law). If you are interested in reading my proposal, please let me know and I’ll send it to you. I cannot put it online because some parts of it are currently under review.
After the summer holidays I shifted my attention from thinking about doing research to doing actual research (about thinking). This has resulted in two papers which will hopefully be published next year. The first paper is a further deepening and elaboration of earlier work that I’ve done on the Philipsdam in the Netherlands. The second paper, which I was able to present at a very inspiring workshop in Lisbon, deals with the nature of Climate Change as an actor in Dutch Delta management. At the moment I have started two new case studies, one in collaboration with the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency on the future of the Dutch south-western Delta and the other on histories and trends in Bangladeshi Delta management.
Before shutting down my computer for this year I want to misuse this blog for thanking just a few of the people that contributed to making the past year such an exciting year. Why should I wait with thanking people until I can write the acknowledgements in my thesis? Thank you Flip and Arthur for your ever inspiring support. Margreet, thank you for making time to listen to my stream of consciousness. Bert for the many reflexive lunch walks. The WOTRO-team, IWE PhD discussion group (let’s revive this initiative!) and the Science and Values cluster at the IVM-VU for lovely discussions.
I am truly looking forward in continuing this wonderful journey called a Phd in 2013!
Merry Christmas to all!
Arjen
For all those interested in the multiple ontologies, multiple realities stuff, and for those of you interested in obscure Scottish pop-music, check out the song Another Man’s World by a band called Immaculate Fools.
In another man’s world,
Not mine...
With 2012 coming to an end I want to look into the rear view mirror just a little bit. A little looking back on what I’ve done over this last year? Going through my notebook it seems that it has been a lively year. I’ve presented my research ideas at various occasions, at the IVM/VU University, at an ICCWaDS workshop at ZEF in Bonn, at the Water@Leeds group, to Ken Oye (MIT), to WUR-ILW students, at the Bangladesh stakeholder workshop in Dhaka and of course meetings with the WOTRO project team. Eventually this has resulted in a finished research proposal that I’ve submitted to the WASS research school. In all this has been a very inspiring period in which I’ve navigated across many epistemological positions. Though this is a wearing, confusing and in the eyes of some utterly useless (I still don’t agree) process, this eventually resulted in a approach for my research that I think is quite useful (and very exciting!). The two main sources of inspiration are Paul Feyerabend’s notion of Abundance and the idea of Ontological Politics (see e.g. the work by Annemarie Mol and John Law). If you are interested in reading my proposal, please let me know and I’ll send it to you. I cannot put it online because some parts of it are currently under review.
After the summer holidays I shifted my attention from thinking about doing research to doing actual research (about thinking). This has resulted in two papers which will hopefully be published next year. The first paper is a further deepening and elaboration of earlier work that I’ve done on the Philipsdam in the Netherlands. The second paper, which I was able to present at a very inspiring workshop in Lisbon, deals with the nature of Climate Change as an actor in Dutch Delta management. At the moment I have started two new case studies, one in collaboration with the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency on the future of the Dutch south-western Delta and the other on histories and trends in Bangladeshi Delta management.
Before shutting down my computer for this year I want to misuse this blog for thanking just a few of the people that contributed to making the past year such an exciting year. Why should I wait with thanking people until I can write the acknowledgements in my thesis? Thank you Flip and Arthur for your ever inspiring support. Margreet, thank you for making time to listen to my stream of consciousness. Bert for the many reflexive lunch walks. The WOTRO-team, IWE PhD discussion group (let’s revive this initiative!) and the Science and Values cluster at the IVM-VU for lovely discussions.
I am truly looking forward in continuing this wonderful journey called a Phd in 2013!
Merry Christmas to all!
Arjen
For all those interested in the multiple ontologies, multiple realities stuff, and for those of you interested in obscure Scottish pop-music, check out the song Another Man’s World by a band called Immaculate Fools.
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