Planet Earth (Africa, Europa, Asia) painted by watercolor. Photo: Elena Mozhvilo/Unsplash
The Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University invites applications to the PhD course: “Whose world? Resource (ab)use in the longue durée”.
Who has the authority to shape the world—and at whose expense? Whose World? Resource (Ab)use in the Longue Durée is a doctoral course that invites participants to examine the historical foundations of environmental and social injustice. Bridging history, human rights, environmental studies, and legal scholarship, the course investigates how both natural and human resources have been defined, exploited, governed, and contested over time. This course offers insights about sustainability issues from a historical perspective by covering early modern and modern periods. Focusing on theoretical, yet empirically anchored themes such as mining industry, forestry, family law, time and temporality and rights tradition, both from indigenous/minority and majority population perspectives, the course unfolds resource abuse and use related to these themes and how this knowledge can be used as an integrated part of work on sustainability issues.
Application:
To apply for the course, send an e-mail to Joachim Östlund ().
The deadline to apply is 21 November 2025.
Other enquiries: For any enquiries regarding the course, please contact Joachim Östlund ().