Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, Jack Dinham, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Roux Davies: Misrecognition, Repression & Detransition: An Account of Gender as Ideology’
In this episode of the Meliora Podcast Student Research Symposium we are joined by Final year undergraduate Philosophy student Roux Davies to discuss his dissertation ‘Misrecognition, Repression & Detransition: An Account of Gender as Ideology’.
Roux discusses Philosophy’s unique approach to sustainability issues with particular focus of SDG 5: Gender Equality. He outlines what ideology is and the way it functions in gender. He talks about the role his personal experience of detransition played in forming his dissertation. He talks about the responsibility he feels he shares with academics to produce work which is mindful of its effect on the world. We also hear the perspective of a humanities student on the need for humanities in sustainability. Finally, we discuss the way popular media discusses and often stands as an obstacle to achieving SDGs.
The Meliora Podcast Student Research Symposium is part of the 2024 Student Takeover Season where we celebrate the fantastic sustainability research work of our Undergraduate Students.
Episode Guest: Roux Davies
Episode Host: Prof Simon Kemp
Episode Editor: Libby Kale
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