Reading Group: Anna Krzywoszyńska

The SOILS team is excited to present Associate Professor Anna Krzywoszyńska as our next guest for the Reading Group. 

Illustration of two hands with red-brown soils. Thumbs are brushing against the soil in the palm of the hands.
Photo: Lance Cheung, USDA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Information

Welcome to the first Reading Group session of the semester! For this session we will discuss readings from Associate Professor Anna Krzywoszynska at the University of Oulu. This will be a hybrid session, where the presenter will be presenting the readings via Zoom. 

For in-person attendance: Blindern Campus, P.A. Munchs hus, room PAM389. 

For Zoom: https://uio.zoom.us/j/67834768316 

Readings

Krzywoszynska, Anna, Steve Banwart and David Blacker. 2020. "To Know, To Dwell, To Care: Towards an Actionable, Place-based Knowledge of Soils". In Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska and Manual Tironi (eds.). Thinking With Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 89-106. 

Krzywoszynska, Anna. 2018. "Making knowledge and meaning in communities of practice: What role may science play? The case of sustainable soil management in England". Soil Use and Management. Vol. 35(1). pp. 160-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12487

About the presenter

Anna Krzywoszynska is an Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Human-Environment Relations at the department of Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. She is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist with expertise in agricultural and environmental knowledge, more-than-human research, and public participation in science. Her overarching research interest lies in transforming knowledge-cultures in different settings through strengthening the relationship between humans and their environments. Her current research interests include human-soil relations and knowledge systems, the co-production of soil knowledge between science and society, and the role of local food systems in achieving socio-environmental justice. She contributes to debates in the interdisciplinary fields of Anthropocene studies and more-than-human scholarship, most recently in relation to care, labor, and relationality. She has published widely in the fields of science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and human geography.

Anna is currently a Co-Chair of the International Union of Soil Science’s Commission 4.5 : Soil Humanities and Social Sciences, a Board Member of the Horizon Europe Mission Soil Deal for Europe, and an Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities. She has also created and continues to lead the Soil Care Network, a transdisciplinary community of professional and amateur soil researchers. 

Published Jan. 12, 2023 9:58 AM - Last modified Jan. 16, 2023 11:13 AM