EASST + 4S JOINT CONFERENCE Prague 2020
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<br>August 18-21
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<br>Aleksandra Lis, PhD aleksandra.ola@gmail.com
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<br>Łukasz Afeltowicz, PhD afeltovicz@gmail.com
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<br>We invite you to submit abstracts to *the closed panel *titled*:*
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<br>*Contradictions of Climate Action: individual and collective dilemmas*
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<br>“Climate crisis” won the first place among the most important phrases of
<br>the year 2019. Anthropocene is no longer a concept “on offer”, but it is
<br>actively shaping public imagination and debates about the human – non-human
<br>relations. The awareness of the approaching disaster – or many of them –
<br>has never before been so widespread in Western societies, and action to
<br>mitigate human impacts on the environment is no longer seen as a
<br>responsibility of governments and companies alone, but of every individual,
<br>as a consumer and citizen. Moreover, while at the turn of the last century,
<br>climate science has mainly focused on the impacts of greenhouse gases
<br>(GHGs), today the portfolio of dangerous factors has grown. Science made
<br>plastics visible not only at the bottom of the oceans but also in the
<br>bodies of fish and other animals, and the complexity and wickedness of the
<br>anthropogenic climate change is commonly accepted, rather an issue to be
<br>argued about.
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<br>Yet, we don’t exactly know what to do about it. Awareness does not
<br>translate into action. And this is a challenge for social sciences.
<br>Citizens / consumers get confused when choosing the proper actions and when
<br>thinking of proper. Which externalities that both individual and
<br>organizational entities inevitably produce should be taken into
<br>consideration when planning climate action. Is a city, a household or a
<br>global market the right scale to act? Shall we drive electric vehicles or
<br>develop public transportation? Shall we switch from plastic bags to cotton
<br>bags due to low carbon emissions? Should we focus on waste 3Rs, or maybe it
<br>is responsibility of regulators and industries. Shall we become vegan or
<br>reduce meat consumption only a bit? What is the scale for organizing
<br>zero-waste consumption – a household, a city, a sector of production or a
<br>country? These questions, among many others, pop up in our heads as we act
<br>as consumers, citizens, decision-makers, experts or CEOs.
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<br>During this panel, we would like to open a discussion about dealing with
<br>climate action contradictions in various configurations of actors – as
<br>individuals, collectives, companies, industries. We would like to see how
<br>action is constructed at these levels – what is the practice, how choices
<br>are made and how contradictions and uncertainties are dealt with? We make a
<br>distinction between individual action, collectively coordinated action and
<br>action that has been enhanced by artificial intelligence – machine
<br>learning, in particular. At the same time, using STS perspectives, we want
<br>to unpack individuals, collectives and AI-enhanced organization means in
<br>practice – what kinds of socio-technical assemblages stand behind
<br>individual, collection and AI-enhances action? What kinds of
<br>socio-technical, as well as political projects they are.
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<br>In order to address these issues, we invite papers which address the
<br>following topics, though the list is not comprehensive:
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<br>- green paradoxes (i.a. rebound effect, carbon leakage, carbon
<br>shifting)
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<br>- interactions between climate action and pro-environmental
<br>initiatives and smart city, smart grids, AI application in energy and
<br>climate action
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<br>- consumer choices between alternative pro-environmental styles of
<br>consumption
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<br>- processes of internalization and externalization
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<br>- scalar politics
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<br>- institutional incentives for and against climate action
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<br>- interactions between state power and environmental activism.
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<br>Submission deadline is 29 Feb 2020. Please send the abstracts of around 250
<br>words to Aleksandra Lis aleksandra.ola@gmail.com and Łukasz Afeltowicz
<br>afeltovicz@gmail.com . You will be notified about the acceptance of
<br>abstracts on April 15, 2020.
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<br>More info about closed panel in general
<br>https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
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<br>Aleksandra Lis, PhD
<br>Associate Professor
<br>Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
<br>alis@amu.edu.pl
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<br>https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-lis-18799bb/
<br>https://amu.academia.edu/AleksandraLis
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