Rony Emmenegger
Maître-assistant·e
Département de géosciences
Biographie
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.
Recherche et publications
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Publications
30 publications
Adam Bobbette’s The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java. Duke University Press
Rony Emmenegger (2024) | RecensionNuclear Waste in my Backyard: Social Acceptance and Economic Incentives
Petyo Bonev, Rony Emmenegger, Rony Emmenegger, Rony Emmenegger, Rony Emmenegger, Laura Forero, Kaloyan Ganev , Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva , Magnus Söderberg, Energy Policy (2024) | ArticleDer Palast und die Souveränität des Premierministers in Äthiopien
Rony Emmenegger, Asebe Ragassa, S u b / u r b a n (2023) | ArticleHinkelstein: Ein Mahnmal gegen ein Tiefenlager im Zürcher Weinland , dans Orte der Schweiz. Helvetiq Verlag
Rony Emmenegger (2023) | Chapitre de livreOrdered Hybrid Ecologies: Unearthing Sedimented Histories in the Arboretum
Rony Emmenegger (2023) | AutreThe Emperor, the Lion and the Peacock: Monuments and Contested State Sovereignty in Contemporary Ethiopia.
Asebe Regassa, Rony Emmenegger, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2023) | ArticleTägernauerholz: The Forest Being and Political Resistance
Rony Emmenegger , Unruly Natures (2023) | AutreAlpine Wertelandschaften und Energieinfrastrukturen: Grundpfeiler für eine sozialwissenschaftlich inspirierte Landschaftsforschung
Rony Emmenegger, Maren Kern , Mountain Wilderness (2022) | AutreCartographic Enclosure and Urban Cadastral Mapping in the Ethiopian Somali Capital
Rony Emmenegger, Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (2022) | ArticleEnergy Futures as Societal Futures: Co-evolutionary Scenarios Linking Futures of Society and Decarbonized Energy Systems in Switzerland 2050
Paul Burger and Rony Emmenegger and Annika Sohre, Futures (2022) | Article - Projets de recherche