Peter Graham
Part Time Teaching
Department: School of Community and Public Affairs
Faculty: Arts and Science
Phone: | (514) 848-2424 | |
Email: | peter.graham@concordia.ca | |
Expertise:
Sustainable development, naturalized gardens, non-Cartesian ontology, UN SDG's
Language(s) spoken:
English, French
Professional associations:
School of Community & Public Affairs, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
I am an interdisciplinary social scientist with ongoing research on the challenge of societal transformation for sustainability. My work begins from an understanding of the negative consequences of the overly reductionist perspective typical of contemporary sustainability research. A systems perspective needs to incorporate a realistic understanding of human mind as mediated, as well as extended and distributed throughout environment. When we introduce a poorly theorized thing into the system, whether overly atomistic theoretical model or instrumentally materialized technology, we impoverish the entire system.