About this episode
This episode discusses shipping and features an interview with Elisabeth Schober, who is involved in a research project on ports.
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming “Ports”-project, which will be funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 851132.
People in this episode
Guest: Elisabeth Schober
Topics covered
- shipping
- urban sustainability
- ports
- social anthropology
- European research
Keywords
- shipping
- urban cities
- sustainability
- ports project
- European Research Council
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, European Research Council, European Union
Places: Oslo
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