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- Convenor:
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Angela Marques Filipe
(Durham University)
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- Chair:
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Eugenia Rodrigues
(University of Edinburgh)
- Format:
- Combined Format Open Panel
Short Abstract
Following a planetary turn in social thought, we ask: if navigating climate-changing worlds affects our everyday lives, how do these affects shape, in turn, how we know, envision and desire futures that are worth living? What do climate feelings and futures want and ask – now more than ever?
Description
The last decade has witnessed a shift of attention towards “planetary thinking” in social and political theory (Clark & Szerszynski 2020, Hui 2024) and in global agendas for planetary boundaries and health, drawing attention to the existential threats posed by anthropogenic crises of climate change and extreme weather events, toxic waste and pollution, and biodiversity and habitat loss. Scholars in and outside STS suggested that shift calls for down-to-earth modes of knowing and being (Latour 2018), staying with the trouble (Haraway 2016), acting-with the world (Pickering 2025), and pluralistic world-making (Escobar 2007, Masco et al. 2025).
Yet comparatively less attention has been paid to the reverse-arrow of the climate question in STS: if inhabiting a planet on fire affects virtually every aspect of our lives, how do these affects shape, in turn, how we navigate changing climates and envision liveable futures? How might climate feelings and their discontents expand, yet also foreclose, horizons of possibility – at once expressing and withholding ontological vulnerabilities? How might we pivot the perennial STS focus on the co-production of science and society (Filipe et al. 2017) towards reimagining how climate knowledge, action and emotion (Sasser 2024) are being jointly produced or otherwise disconnected? What are the means, methods, values, and aesthetics that this reimagination begets – from interdisciplinary and citizen science to speculative fictions and creative design? In other words, what do climate feelings and planetary futures want and ask of STS?
This Combined Format Panel invites proposals that engage with these questions. Its hybrid format will combine (i) a panel, comprising talks from speakers (short papers or combinations of these with creative, multimedia interventions), and (ii) a workshop, where participants will come together to co-develop plans for an edited collection on the panel’s themes. The aim is to foster critical conversations in the EASST community and across STS, social science, arts, and humanities.