Sacha Kagan

Sacha Kagan

Sacha Kagan has been researching at the intersection of the arts, culture(s), and sustainability for over one-and-a-half decades. His work combines the social sciences and humanities with arts-based research to reach for transdisciplinary hermeneutics.

Sacha

Kagan

2016/2020

France

Researcher

Sacha Kagan has been researching at the intersection of the arts, culture(s), and sustainability for over one-and-a-half decades. His work combines the social sciences and humanities with arts-based research to reach for transdisciplinary hermeneutics. He has been a research associate at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISCO), Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) (2005–18); principal investigator at the research project The City as Space of Possibility (2015–18); Coordinator of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts at the European Sociological Association (2015–17); and founding coordinator of Cultura21 International-Cultural Fieldworks for Sustainability (an informal international network grown from the German NGO Cultura21) (2007–16);. Kagan is the author of six dozen publications (articles, chapters, books, etc.), including the book Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity (transcript Verlag, 2011), and of three documentary films. He obtained his PhD at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) in 2011, his MA in cultural economics and cultural entrepreneurship at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) in 2004, graduated in political sociology at Sciences Po Bordeaux (France) in 2003, and in history at University Bordeaux 3 in 2000.