Message posted on 17/05/2023
CFP 4S 2023: Changing Climates, Changing Selves: Ethical Reflexivity in the Climate Crisis
Dear all, Please considering submitting an abstract for the panel "Changing Climates, Changing Selves: Ethical Reflexivity in the Climate Crisis" for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting this November in Honolulu. Panel Abstract: It is increasingly obvious that "business as usual" is inadequate amidst the climate crisis. What comes next, however, is uncertain. In Risk Society, Ulrich Beck predicted that the emergence of complex environmental hazards would result in the growth of reflexive practices in science and politics. STS scholars are well positioned to examine these new forms of self-reflection taking shape among those facing the climate crisis. These practices may include activists rethinking their strategies as they attempt to sway policy makers and broader audiences, scientists wondering about their political responsibilities as witnesses to climate breakdown, Indigenous communities strategically approaching climate movements as a means of self-determination, and many others. Building on Beck's work on 'reflexive modernism' (1986), Foucault's analysis of self-reflexivity as a primary site of ethical practice (2001), and Kim and Mike Fortun's emphasis on scientific subject formation (2005), this session seeks to foster conversations between the studies of ethics and morality (Zigon 2008; Fassin 2008; Lambek 2010) and climate STS (Edwards 2013; Knox 2020; Petyrna 2022) by asking how reflexivity is reshaped by the climate crisis and vice versa. We invite papers that address: - How do climate actors (i.e. impacted communities, scientists, activists, policy makers, etc.) understand themselves? - How do climate disasters and activism shape self-understandings? - What are the ecological consequences of changing self-understandings? - How does the mediatization of the climate crisis impact reflexive practices? - How has the self-understanding of humanity become a problem in the Anthropocene? Note: If you, like me, are concerned with the ethical implications of discussing climate change in Hawaii, please know that these frustrations are welcome in this panel. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Best, Jonathan Wald. -- Dr. Jonathan Wald (he/him) Sessional Lecturer Department of Anthropology and Institute for the Study of International Development McGill University https://jonathanwald.wixsite.com/ecohorror _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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