Rony Emmenegger

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 rony.emmenegger@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 9255
 https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8892-5916

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Departement für Geowissenschaften

PER 14 bu. 3.327.1
Ch. du Musée 4
1700 Fribourg
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PER 14, 3.327.1
+41 26 300 9255

Biografie

I am a political geographer with a keen interest in the governance of human-environment relations, landscapes, and above- and below-ground infrastructure. In my current research, I am working on the politics of nuclear waste governance in Switzerland and beyond. Based on ethnographic research since 2019, I have been investigating the relationship between science, society, and democracy and how it is negotiated in a participatory governance process around issues of uncertainty, risk, and safety. In parallel, I have focused on the production of knowledge about the deep geological subsurface - where nuclear waste is to be stored for the next million years - and how it is articulated and contested in public controversies as the governance process progresses. This latter interest continues to be the focus of my SNSF Project (2024-2028) entitled "Nuclear Strata: The Political Geology of Nuclear Waste Governance", hosted by the Department of Geosciences at the University of Fribourg. Overall, my work is empirically grounded and theoretically inspired by debates and concepts in political geography, political geology, political ecology, political anthropology, science and technology studies, philosophy of science, critical sustainability studies, and environmental humanities. In addition, I have been involved in a number of collaborative arts and science projects, including the Unruly Natures project at the University of St. Gallen.

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