Climate Imaginaries: Narrating socio-cultural transitions to a post-fossil society
Project: Research
Layman's description
The power to enable and govern transition to post-fossil society does not only rely on scientific facts and legislative measures, but also on effectual means to envision post-fossil worlds. Our key objective is to explore the transformative capacity of imaginaries; how compelling narratives are told, and how they can shape and enable efforts to confront climate change. Different academic perspectives are brought together to expand the knowledge on how climate imaginaries become effective. Around 80 imaginaries will be collected and compared in terms of content and persuasive power. Three particular field locations will provide insights into how imaginaries are acted upon. We will also work to generate new climate imaginaries by enabling a series of creative projects, such as modelling imaginaries from literary and visual culture.
A new community of practice will be created by assembling a multi-disciplinary group of scholars from Lund, Utrecht, Durham and Warwick Universities and a wide range of practitioners, from public authorities and private companies to creative communities. Reciprocal interaction and collaborative processes, rather than linear forms of dissemination and communication is at the heart of CLIMAGINARIES transdisciplinary endeavour.
We will provide new knowledge on how stories of climate futures circulate, translate and resonate. We aim to leave participants with a new sense of the features that make climate change matter socially and culturally.
A new community of practice will be created by assembling a multi-disciplinary group of scholars from Lund, Utrecht, Durham and Warwick Universities and a wide range of practitioners, from public authorities and private companies to creative communities. Reciprocal interaction and collaborative processes, rather than linear forms of dissemination and communication is at the heart of CLIMAGINARIES transdisciplinary endeavour.
We will provide new knowledge on how stories of climate futures circulate, translate and resonate. We aim to leave participants with a new sense of the features that make climate change matter socially and culturally.
Acronym | Climaginaries |
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Status | Active |
Effective start/end date | 2018/09/01 → 2021/12/31 |
Links | https://www.climaginaries.org/ |
Collaborative partners
- Lund University (lead)
- University of Warwick
- Durham University
- Utrecht University
Participants
Related projects
(Predecessor)
Johannes Stripple, Alexandra Nikoleris, Paul Tenngart, Roger Hildingsson, Tobias Nielsen, Moa Petersén, Max Åhman, Karin Ericsson, Benjamin Smith, Anna Maria Jönsson, Markku Rummukainen, Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, Kimberly Nicholas, Henner Busch, Kes Mccormick & Paul Miller
2017/09/01 → …
Project: Research › Internal collaboration (LU)
Related research output
Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson (ed.), Alexandra Nikoleris (ed.), Johannes Stripple (ed.) & Paul Tenngart (ed.), 2020 Jan 24, Lund: Department of Political Science, Lund University. 44 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology (editor)
Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson, Johannes Stripple, Alexandra Nikoleris, Roger Hildingsson, Caroline Mårtensson & Sylvia Lysko, 2019 Apr 8
Research output: Non-textual form › Curated/produced exhibition/event
Related activities
Nikoleris, A. (Interviewee), Stripple, J. (Interviewee), Nicholas, K. (Interviewee)
2019 Sep 23
Activity: Other › Media participation
Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson (Interviewee), Lars Ekman (Host)
2019 Apr 8
Activity: Other › Media participation