Planetary Choices

The podcast 'Planetary Choices' is created and produced by the Research Center for New Critical Politics and Governance, located at Aarhus University, Denmark.

The concept of 'The Planetary' has gained increasing traction in almost all scientific disciplines. From physics, to literature, to history, law and economics — planetary thinking and policy making is taking more sophisticated shapes, amounting to an emerging new paradigm.

In season 1, called "Mapping the Planetary", we map and assess the concept of the planetary, where we stand today, and in which direction planetary thinking and activism may develop in the future.

With this podcast, we also intend to explore scholarly research through an alternative venue of dissemination that allows for aural intimacy, faster publishing and full open access. As each episode contributes to a larger question investigated throughout a season, every episode becomes a data point on its own, consequently making "Planetary Choices" a place of output and on-going research.

Join us and explore the big questions of our planet!

Guest

Michael Zürn

Michael Zürn is Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of International Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin. His work focuses on global governance, international institutions, their legitimacy, and contestations of liberal-democratic orders. From 2019-2023, he was co-spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2004-2010 he served as Founding Dean of the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin). He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), ALLEA and the Academia Europaea. He received several prizes, among them the prestigious Berlin Science Award in 2021 as well as the Thomas Mann House Fellowship in Los Angeles.

https://www.wzb.eu/en/persons/michael-zurn

Guest appearance on:

The Shifting Tides of Global Governance — A Conversation with Michael Zürn