Semine Long-Callesen is a researcher and writer, born and based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Semine writes about colonialism and museums in Denmark, Malaysia, and Singapore. She is the author of Take Root Eat Root (Obra Press 2024), a book about colonial botany in Honduras and Malaysia and manages the recipe universe gardenblues.net. Semine is currently affiliated with the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University. Semine has been a research fellow at MIT, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the architecture practice APRDELESP. Semine holds a BA in Art History with Distinction from Cambridge University and a MSc in Architecture Studies from MIT.
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Climate Justice at the University: Integrating Struggles for Liberation
With universities being highly enmeshed with corporate money that comes from fossil fuel industries, does it even make sense to have universities? And how exactly do we move from profit-seeking science research that advances weapon technology to liberation?
November 4, 2025
Loss, Damage, and Justice in Global Climate Policy
COP has been running for 30 years but institutional governance seems to focus on symbolic acts that redeem and repent empires instead of spearheading structural and fundamental changes. After all, the Fund is born out of a Global North/South divide where justice remains a voluntary and charitable gesture.
October 23, 2025
There is nothing new about renewable energy: Tracing the life of solar panels
Industrial-scale renewable energy does not offer an alternative to the capitalist order and its exploitative relationships to earth.
September 23, 2025
Frankenstein and Kant’s beauty come from Dutch Indonesia
It took the Anthropocene to create an aesthetic of the environmental crisis and self-reflection in the cultural canon. And it sparked a long process of going back over famous works that had been taken for granted as artworks devoid of environmental violence.
June 27, 2025
The loss of a single species is the loss of a whole world
The soul is neither the inner self, the divine, nor the immaterial, as traditional philosophical thinking might argue. Rather, it is that which binds us together: it is relational and environmental, and when a species goes extinct, its soul, and thereby its relations, goes with it.
April 16, 2025
If all minerals are extracted from the soil, will the flowers ever bloom again?
In artist Toshie Takeuchi’s work, she travels from Belgian archives to Congolese mines to expose the long durée trail of destruction that the powerful uranium leaves behind in the imperial — British, American, French, Belgian, German — drive for wealth and power.
March 25, 2025