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
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