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

Jeremy Morris

Jeremy Morris is a British ethnographer and political anthropologist specializing in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is Professor of Russian and Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. Notably, an interview with The Moscow Times in 2025 revealed that Morris is among the few Western scholars who continued conducting fieldwork in Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

His recent book, 2025: Everyday Politics in Russia —From Resentment to Resistance, uses rich ethnographic material to examine contemporary authoritarianism through the lens of micropolitics, understood not as miniature politics, but as the political dimensions embedded in the everyday practices, interactions, and conversations of ordinary life.

Guest appearance on:

Rethinking Russia: Transnational Perspectives on Authoritarianism, Society & Resistance – A Symposium