Mar­tin Skrydstrup

This pro­ject ex­plores how sustain­ability cer­ti­fic­a­tions and stand­ards in glob­al value chains ac­tu­ally work in prac­tice and how and when they fail to achieve their stated ob­ject­ives. To ex­plore this ques­tion the pro­ject team has been fol­low­ing tea from agrari­an sites of cul­tiv­a­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing in Kenya to auc­tion halls and the mak­ing of sustain­ability re­ports. In a wider per­spect­ive, our find­ings are com­pared with sustain­ability cer­ti­fic­a­tion re­gimes for oil palm and wine. With the tools of field based eth­no­graphy, the pro­ject shines a light what sustain­ability in glob­al value chains ac­tu­ally means. The pro­ject was gen­er­ously fun­ded by a Sapere Aude DFF Award.

Of late we have seen a re­sur­gence of resti­tu­tion claims for mu­seum ob­jects. This pro­ject ex­plores the eth­ics of claims and their re­sponses by cul­tur­al her­it­age in­sti­tu­tions. The pro­ject is gen­er­ously fun­ded by the Carls­berg Found­a­tion.

In a new era of trade wars and geo­pol­it­ic­al in­stabil­ity the vul­ner­ab­il­ity of glob­al sup­ply chains have be­come ob­vi­ous – and a search for al­tern­at­ives ac­cen­tu­ated. This new glob­al or­der has made cir­cu­lar eco­nomy and sim­il­ar re­si­li­ent frame­works more rel­ev­ant. This pro-ject frames cir­cu­lar eco­nomy with­in this emer­ging con­text of geo­pol­it­ics and busi­ness se­cur­ity and seeks to un­der­stand what en­ables in­nov­a­tion by look­ing at the par­tic­u­lars of place and trans­ac­tions.