TAI Bookshelf Podcast - Geoengineering and Green Colonialism with Aaron Cooper
Aaron Cooper during a field trip to Stavanger, Norway. Photo: Aaron Cooper
The Arctic Institute’s Bookshelf Podcast is back with its second series! This season, your favorite hosts Liubov Timonina and Romain Chuffart are joined by a new host, Saga Helgason. Together they chat with scholars and experts to make the Arctic easy and accessible to everyone.
Tune in every other week and join our in-depth conversations that take you beyond the headlines and right into the latest ideas, challenges, and experiences from the Arctic.
To kick start this new series, Liubov and Romain chat with Aaron Cooper. The three of them discuss geoengineering, indigenous rights and the green transition in the Arctic as well as colonial patterns in international law and education and what we can do to make a change.
Aaron is a Lecturer in Law at Coventry University, and a PhD candidate at the University of Eastern Finland. His doctoral research explores the link between the development of geoengineering, its regulation, and the consequences for Arctic indigenous peoples. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in Public international law, Human rights and International Environmental law. Aaron also holds a visiting lecturer post at the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, teaching environmental law and sustainable development.
References in this episode:
- Aaron Cooper, “Norway: the paradoxical environmentalist: Case comment” (2017) 22(2) Coventry Law Journal, 54-57.
- Heather Exner-Pirot, Maria Ackrén, Natalia Loukacheva, Heather Nicol, Annika E. Nilsson and Jennifer Spence, “Form and Function: The Future of the Arctic Council”, The Arctic Institute (5 February 2019) Available online: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/form-function-future-arctic-council/
- Gosia Smieszek, “Costs and Reality of Reforming the Arctic Council”, The Arctic Institute (9 April 2019) Available online: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/costs-reality-reforming-arctic-council/
This episode was recorded in November 2020. Also check out Aaron’s follow up article on the Sámi Council’s resistance to SCoPEX highlights the complex questions surrounding geoengineering and consent from 20 May 2021.