Morgan Storm Scoville-Simonds

• Köppel, Jonas & Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2024). What should “we” do? Subjects and scales in the double-bind between energy transition and lithium extraction. The Extractive Industries and Society. ISSN 2214-790X. 17, s. 1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2023.101376.
• Bentz, Julia; O'Brien, Karen & Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2022). Beyond ‘blah blah blah’: Exploring the ‘how’ of transformation. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. 17(2), s. 497–506. doi: 10.1007/s11625-022-01123-0.
• Lorca, Mauricio; Olivera Andrade, Manuel; Escosteguy, Melisa; Köppel, Jonas; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan & Hufty, Marc (2022). Mining indigenous territories: Consensus, tensions and ambivalences in the Salar de Atacama. The Extractive Industries and Society. ISSN 2214-790X. 9. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2022.101047. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Lithium mining in Chile’s Salar de Atacama (SdA) has a relatively long and controversial history, especially when it comes to the local Indigenous peoples. In this context, this paper looks at the ways mining activities, and different visions of territory and indigeneity co-produce each other in the particular context of the SdA. For this, we use historical and ethnographic methods and draw on studies in anthropology and geography. We aim to escape simplistic images of Indigenous peoples’ reactions to mining as reflecting victimhood, resistance, or strategic pragmatism, and show instead how individuals and groups organize and express themselves in ambivalent ways, maintaining complex relationships with both mining and the territory. According to our local interlocutors, struggles around territory in the SdA mainly concern water scarcity, the survival of this unique ecosystem’s biological diversity, as well as continuity and change in local lifeways. While recent agreements between mining companies and local communities may benefit some individuals, they are also generating inter- and intra- community tensions over these issues. We find that mining shapes what ’indigenous’ means and who can claim this identity, while Indigenous mobilization in turn shapes how mining is perceived and carried out. Together, mining and Indigenous mobilization produce a particular kind of territory, pervaded by diverse lines of both consensus and tension. Rather than contradictions, the ambivalent positions Indigenous peoples maintain become comprehensible when considering, ethnographically and historically, the particular places and life- worlds they inhabit, and the asymmetrical patterns of constraint and opportunity they face. More broadly, the paper raises questions about the implications of a global transition to renewable energy based on lithium battery technologies, and ethical responses to the climate crisis.

• Eriksen, Siri; Schipper, E Lisa F; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Vincent, Katharine; Adam, Hans Nicolai & Brooks, Nick [Vis alle 20 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance? World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 141. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii) a retrofitting of adaptation into existing development agendas; and (iv) a lack of critical engagement with how ‘adaptation success’ is defined. Emerging literature shows potential avenues for overcoming the current failure of adaptation interventions to reduce vulnerability: first, shifting the terms of engagement between adaptation practitioners and the local populations participating in adaptation interventions; and second, expanding the understanding of ‘local’ vulnerability to encompass global contexts and drivers of vulnerability. An important lesson from past adaptation interventions is that within current adaptation cum development paradigms, inequitable terms of engagement with ‘vulnerable’ populations are reproduced and the multi-scalar processes driving vulnerability remain largely ignored. In particular, instead of designing projects to change the practices of marginalised populations, learning processes within organisations and with marginalised populations must be placed at the centre of adaptation objectives. We pose the question of whether scholarship and practice need to take a post-adaptation turn akin to post-development, by seeking a pluralism of ideas about adaptation while critically interrogating how these ideas form part of the politics of adaptation and potentially the processes (re)producing vulnerability. We caution that unless the politics of framing and of scale are explicitly tackled, transformational interventions risk having even more adverse effects on marginalised populations than current adaptation.

• Fazey, Ioan; Schäpke, Niko; Rosenberg, Milda Nordbø; Caniglia, Guido; O'Brien, Karen & Hodgson, Anthony [Vis alle 40 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent.

• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Jamali, Hameed & Hufty, Marc (2020). The Hazards of Mainstreaming: Climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 125. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104683. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2018). Climate, the Earth, and God - Entangled narratives of cultural and climatic change in the Peruvian Andes. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 110, s. 345–359. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.012. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Veland, Siri; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schorre, Ann Kristin; El Khoury, Ann & Nordbø, Milda Jonusaite [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2018). Narrative matters for sustainability: the transformative role of storytelling in realizing 1.5°C futures. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. ISSN 1877-3435. 31, s. 41–47. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.12.005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2016). The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation Finance—An Overview and Critique. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Policy. ISSN 2305-705X.

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• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2024). La cadena de producción del litio: Gobernanza transnacional y geopolítica.
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2023). De la extracción de litio a la producción de baterías: ¿Cómo estudiar la justicia y la sosteni-bilidad a través de lugares y escalas?” [From lithium extraction to battery production: how to study justice and sustainability across places and scales?].
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan & Sanchez-Lopez, Daniela (2023). Introducing 'due diligence'.
• Köppel, Jonas & Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2023). What should ‘we’ do? Subjects and scales in the double-bind between energy transition and lithium extraction.
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2022). Knowledge (dis)connects in climate and energy narratives.
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan & Köppel, Jonas (2022). Dreams, realities, or recurring nightmares? Comparing battery socio-technical imaginaries between Latin America and Europe.
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2022). Las encrucijadas del litio: laboratorio ciencia-política-social [Lithium Crossroads: Social – science – policy laboratory].
• Hufty, Marc; Lorca, Mauricio; Olivera Andrade, Manuel; Escosteguy, Melisa; Köppel, Jonas & Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2021). Mining Indigenous Territories: Consensus, Tensions and Ambivalences in the Salar de Ata-cama.
• Köppel, Jonas & Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2021). Staying with the double-bind: Narrative Relations Between Energy Transition and Lithium Extraction.
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2021). Reshaping peoples and places: A global political ecology of lithium (Panel chair).
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Calvão, Filipe; Escosteguy, Melisa; Köppel, Jonas; Lorca, Mauricio & Seghezzo, Lucas [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Re-articulating Lithium – Toward Political Ecologies of lithium extraction.
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2021). Sustainability for whom? Climate change, lithium, and the remaking of the global South.
• Scoville-Simonds, Morgan & O'Brien, Karen (2018). Vulnerability. I Castree, Noel; Hulme, Mike & Proctor, James D. (Red.), Companion to Environmental Studies. Routledge. ISSN 9781138192201. s. 127–135.

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