Navigating Uncertain futures
Navigating Uncertain Futures: Social Engagement and Transformative Change in Global Socio-Ecological Systems
Virtual Conference, October 14-15, 2022
The Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24) in the International Sociological Association and the Section on Environmental Sociology in the American Sociological Association have joined together to offer a special virtual conference to support global dialogues among scholars in environmental sociology on the most pressing issues for our discipline and our planet: how to navigate climate futures. The event will consist of an opening plenary session, three asynchronous regional panel events to accommodate regional time zones, and a closing plenary session. The three regional panels will each be facilitated by regional representatives and will occur during the daytime hours on either October 14 or 15 in the following regions: North/South America, Europe/Africa, and Asia/South Pacific.
We are currently soliciting the members of both organizations to consider submitting abstracts for oral presentations in this special event. We are particularly interested in the participation of emerging scholars, and scholars living and conducting research in the Global South. Topics may include, for example:
Participation is free for all current members of ISA RC24 or ASA Section on Environmental Sociology. A maximum of one submission per lead author.
Abstract Submission deadline: July 30, 2022
Submit abstracts to the google form found: HERE
We are currently soliciting the members of both organizations to consider submitting abstracts for oral presentations in this special event. We are particularly interested in the participation of emerging scholars, and scholars living and conducting research in the Global South. Topics may include, for example:
- The intersections of climate change with equity, gender, race, food sovereignty and food security, health, COVID, hazard occurrence and coping; migration and conflict; racial capitalism, colonialism, populism and authoritarianism; pollution, the petrochemical industry, and capitalism
- Social responses to the climate crisis, including climate anxiety, activism, innovations in local socio-ecological design; and alternative models of development; political polarization; climate denial; shifting scales and styles of governance
- Advances in scholarship and praxis, including shifting environmental sociological imaginations; theories and mechanisms of transformative change in social systems; climate change in the classroom; public outreach and science activism
Participation is free for all current members of ISA RC24 or ASA Section on Environmental Sociology. A maximum of one submission per lead author.
Abstract Submission deadline: July 30, 2022
Submit abstracts to the google form found: HERE