In 2022, the European Union (EU) underscored the need to build synergies between digital and green transitions – two paradigmatic shifts proposed lately in response to global economic and environmental challenges (Joint Research Centre, 2022). The working group aims to address the conceptual groundwork required for critically interfacing the two transitions. The key goal of the working group is to build a shared conceptual vocabulary from an anthropological perspective, while borrowing from other allied disciplines, to address the challenges and possibilities of thinking these processes together. We will build on the team’s existing fieldwork experience in Germany, Romania, Norway, Hungary and India and specialisation on topics ranging from industrialization, environmental movements, ecology, new digital technologies and international migration. The working group’s goal during the meeting is to develop an interdisciplinary and anthropologically grounded conceptual vocabulary which will be annotated and presented through a concept diagram. The list and the conceptual diagram will be used to develop a shared research agenda and strategies for future research projects at the European level.
Main research areas
- Digital
- Green
- Anthropology
- Contemporary transformations
- Crises