I study the interface between knowledge and politics of sustainability transitions and transformations, focusing especially on how power manifests in relationships between different societal actors in co-production of sustainability knowledge, imagination, and action. I am interested in how the plurality of sustainability visions, knowledges and practices across different governance fields, societal actors and epistemic cultures comes together and falls apart in the Global North and South. My research has involved critical analysis of sustainability and research policies, political ontologies and power dynamics of research programmes, knowledge-action configurations of deliberative democracy, and prefigurative legality of climate litigation. I am developing approaches to exploring socio-ecologically just sustainability transformations and the Anthropocene through creative writing, postmodern theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed. I am affiliated with Research Forum at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEFO/CEMUS) at Uppsala University and the GreenDeal-NET, a research network of the European Green Deal.

Publications (selected)

Sokolova, T. (2024). Who gets to imagine a fossil-free future? Ontological politics of knowledge-action co-production in the Swedish just transition. Environmental Politics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2443884 Länk till annan webbplats.

Sokolova, T. (2023). Co-producing 'The Future(s) We Want': How does political imagination translate into democratised knowledge-action models for sustainability transformations? Environmental Science and Policy, 144, pp. 162-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.03.018 Länk till annan webbplats.

Sokolova, T., Gallardo Fernández, G. L. & Saunders, F. (2020). Introduction: Learning to Learn from the Complex Interactions and Dilemmas of Field Research. In: Gallardo Fernández, G. L., Saunders, F. & Sokolova, T. eds. (2020). Co-creating Actionable Science : Reflections from the Global North and South. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1–12.

Gallardo F., G. L. & Saunders, F. & Sokolova, T. & Börebäck, K. & van Laerhoven, F. & Kokko, S. & Tuvendal, M., (2017). “We adapt … but is it good or bad? Locating the political ecology and social-ecological systems debate in reindeer herding in the Swedish Sub-Arctic”, Journal of Political Ecology 24(1), p.667-691. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/v24i1.20960 Länk till annan webbplats.

Sokolova, Tatiana (2014). Indigenous, Local, Sustainable? Reflections on the Relevance of ‘Indigenous’ Discourse for Sustainability. In J. Gärdebo, M.-B. Öhman, & H. Maruyama (Eds.), Re: Mindings: Co-constituting indigenous, academic, artistic knowledges (pp. 143–152). The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University.

Sokolova, Tatiana, Wouter Blankestijn and Ksenia Zakharova (2021). ‘Inheriting the Pandora Box: Environmental Impacts of the Soviet Industrial Legacy’. Baltic Worlds (Online). https://balticworlds.com/inheriting-the-pandora-box-environmental-impacts-of-the-soviet-industrial-legacy/

Faber, Hugo et al. (2023). ‘The politics of environmental knowledge: Shaping environments through research, art and activism Länk till annan webbplats.’. Baltic Worlds (Online).

Sokolova, Tatiana, Nejadibabadaei, Oldouz, Fortes, Bartira (2024). The Anthropocene? Knowledge and practice in times and places of unravelling Länk till annan webbplats, öppnas i nytt fönster.. Baltic Worlds (Online).

News items and discussions

Tatiana Sokolova (2021). Forskning är alltid politisk – den sker inte i ett vakuum (Debattartikel Länk till annan webbplats.).

The role of arts in the creation of a sustainable society. Länk till annan webbplats. Interview with the organisers of The Politics of Environmental Knowledge conference, Södertörn and Färgfabriken, 23-24 May 2022.