Dear colleagues,
the midterm conference of the European Sociological Association RN12 on
Environment and Society, jointly organized with the Energy and Society
Network, will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania on September 24-25, 2025.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 20.
Societal Responses to Environmental Crises and Energy Transitions (7th
Energy & Society Conference)
Website: https://energyandsocietyconference.ktu.edu/
The conference calls for critical sociological reflection and data driven
social science responses within the overlapping broad themes of energy
transitions and the climate change emergency, biodiversity loss, and
environmental pollution crises. Among other important issues, the conference
aims to foreground recognition of how energy systems and transitions are
linked to, or implicated in, many broader processes of change. These include
climate and planetary health, public health and wellbeing, poverty and
oppression, biodiversity and environmental change, water, food, finance and
economics, and many others. This conference aims not only to discuss current
developments, injustices, and imbalances in societal responses, but also to
unpack the nature of crises. In particular, it seeks to critically explore the
metamorphosis taking place, the possibilities of coping and adaptation (if
feasible in times of polycrises), and how societies confront evolving risks
and growing insecurity.
The following themes are suggested for the regular conference sessions. We
welcome presentations that speak to the broader conference theme, as well as
those that address energy and environmental crises as social issues in other
ways.
Suggested topics in alphabetical order:
- Climate change communication and other environmental discourses;
- Complexity of the change: theoretical and methodological issues;
- Conflicts and environmental justice;
- Energy, social practices and diverse experiences (e.g. across gender,
race, age);
- Energy nexus (e.g. water/food/environment/climate/biodiversity/health)
- Energy justice and poverty;
- Energy, finance, and economic systems;
- Energy, health and wellbeing;
- Environmental citizenship and environmental activism;
- Environmental values, perceptions, attitudes and behaviors;
- Food security, food practices and cultures;
- Knowledge, ignorance and scepticism;
- Participation, acceptance and environmental governance;
- Rural/urban energy transitions;
- Science, technology, energy and the environment;
- Social research on ecosystems and biodiversity
- Sociology and climate change;
- Sustainable consumption;
- Transdisciplinary research and citizen science in environmental social
sciences and energy research;
- Urban environments, urban nature;
- Open topic.
The conference also calls for suggestions for special sessions in more
creative, interactive formats, e. g. interactive workshops, roundtable
discussions on a focal topic, creative sessions, co-creation sessions, etc.
The conference will offer a Summer School for Early Career Researchers,
focusing on methodologies for social research in energy and the environment
(22-23 September).
Keynote speakers, special sessions and workshops, as well as the social
program, will be announced with the conference program.
Submissions:
Abstracts: 150-200 words, plus authors, affiliations, and email addresses.
Special session proposals (interactive formats): the proposals should
provide a title and a brief abstract with information on the topic, format and
contributors (150-200 words, plus names of proponents, affiliations and email
addresses).
Each author can present only one paper as a lead author. Abstracts must be
submitted in English.
Best wishes,
Ana Horta
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