[csaa-forum] CFP for Sydney

[Jonathan Marshall]

The Australian Anthropological Society invites authors to submit an abstract of original work for consideration for a presentation at the 2016 Conference Anthropocene Transitions 12-15 December 2016.

http://sydney.edu.au/arts/conference/aas2016/index.shtml

?Abstracts are due Monday 15 August 2016?.
I'm organizing the panel.
The complex social and ecological dynamics of climate technologies and transitions

Convenors:
Jonathan Paul Marshall, UTS

Contact Details:
Jonathan.Marshall at uts.edu.au

Short Abstract

Technology is central to the way many societies propose to deal with climate change. These imagined and existing technologies should be studied to understand the complex and uncertain relations between societies and ecologies, and help the necessary transition from coal.

Long Abstract

Technology and imagined technology is a prime approach many societies have proposed to deal with climate change. As a method of producing and magnifying human impact on the world, technology is central to human ecological interaction and being. Technology both grows out of social and political dynamics, and changes those dynamics by providing new platforms of action and effect, with uncertain (and often multiplying) social and ecological consequences. Technology is inherently political. While societies need to make a transition out of fossil fuel energy, this is a contested and disruptive path. This panel asks participants to investigate the socioecological dynamics of climate technology, including renewables (biofuels, solar, windfarms, geothermal etc.), nuclear energy, geoengineering (solar radiation management, CO2 removal), social technologies (carbon trading, behavioural change), defensive technologies (sea walls, dams, desalination plants) and others. Studying these imagined and existing technologies, helps us understand the complex and uncertain relations between societies and ecologies, and the necessary transition from coal.?



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