Master class for Mathias Venning
Jennifer Joy West (NMBU), is giving a master class for PhD candidate Mathias Venning (NORCE/SVT) based on material from Venning's thesis "Co-production of Climate Services in East Africa".
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Abstract:
Over the past two decades, climate services聽 - as the provision of climate information tailored for decision-making settings - have been widely promoted as technoscientific tools for governing ever-increasing climate risks, particularly in development contexts. However, despite ever-increasing investment and a large body of research into more appropriate modes of service production, climate services in Eastern and Southern Africa continue to battle a pervasive 鈥榰sability gap鈥�; which can be understood as a disconnect between the production of a climate service and its actual use in societal decision-making.
Bringing together insights from the academic fields of Sociology and Science & Technology Studies, in this seminar I will present my PhD research which critically examines this state of inertia. In short, my research explores political power in the fundamental governance of climate services as an international field of research and practice. This thesis zooms in on how normative constructions of climate service-led adaptation come into tension with the situated socio-material, and institutional, realities of the contexts where they are planned to be used. Empirical case studies from Ethiopia and Malawi provide a descriptive account of these tensions.聽聽