The production of globally sustainable futures today depends on the scientific research that is being done around the deep ocean, and on how regulators respond to pressures to extract from, transform and control the seabed. Taking into account these developments, Han’s project traces how the production of media technologies like seismology, autonomous gliders and cabled seafloor observatories have worked in the shadow of extractive industries like offshore drilling and deep sea mining. 

This project explores the primary social and political issues driving women to become Rastafari and organize in their communities, examines the ways they combat the triple marginality of being Rastafari, Black and women and analyzes how their international travel forges relationships between Africans and African Diasporans.

“The Unsung Planet” provides a critical examination of the complex relationships that exist between sound and the environment and invites readers into a more attentive awareness of the sonic dimensions of the Earth.

The song produced by comet 67P/C-G throws into stark relief the importance for thinking otherwise about the significance we place on human thought, human experience and human action in articulating the hyper-objective scale and deep time of our many complex sustainability issues and for engaging responses to these issues in some way.

Francoise’s research (and next book project) explores the construction of grief and its relief in three ancient cultures — ancient Israel, Imperial Rome and Hellenistic Judaism — in comparison with contemporary Western societies. Today, alleviation of grief is usually considered an individual task, achieved within the self. Symptomatically, the term “consolation” has fallen out of favor in English. The three ancient cultures selected present widely different constructions of grief, but all regard it as a fundamentally interpersonal concern.