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Dear colleagues,
We are excited to invite you to submit papers to our session on "Emotions as
Tipping Points in a 'Net Zero' Transition" at the Global Tipping Points
Conference 2025. Details below.
Registration
and the call for
abstracts for the Global Tipping Points Conference
2025 (30 June - 3
July, Exeter, UK) are now open.
The programme is
shaping up really well with 30 keynote
speakers and 50 breakout
sessions (a
combination of research and action workshops). There are evening activities to
facilitate networking and extend the programme: a fireside chat with Paul
Polman and Jonathon Porritt; BBQ; street food; systems games; music and
films.
Title
Emotions as Tipping Points in a 'Net Zero' Transition
Short description (not more than 200 words)
Delivering a 'net zero' transition necessitates understanding people's
emotional desires for the future. Human emotions have the potential to speed
up the transition or delay it with social, political and cultural negative
tipping points. Visceral feelings like eco-anxiety and solastalgia are
mobilised in political action, direct action and other forms of protest.
Emotions and affects which run counter to the goal of transition need to be
reckoned with as negative tipping points. Right-wing actors have stoked net
zero culture wars, amplifying attachments to high-carbon lives and increasing
resistance to calls for decarbonisation. Policy and societal actors must find
ways of working with these affective energies to channel desires for action
into programmes for rapid societal decarbonisation. We are keen to hear from
researchers exploring the interplay between climate emotions and affects, on
the one hand, and political/policy action for a rapid transition, on the other
hand, as well as research which examines what it means to enable positive
social tipping points in the transition. We welcome contributions from
researchers at all career stages and disciplines, and are open to different
conceptualisations of 'emotions', 'feelings', and 'affect' and ways of
studying them as tipping points. We will be exploring publication options
after the conference.
Convenors (with institution)
Laura Fogg Rogers (University of the West of England) and Melanie Rohse
(Anglia Ruskin University)
Linked to a Royal Geographical Society conference in August 2025
Dr Mel Rohse (she/her)
Associate Professor of Sustainable Communities
Global Sustainability Institute
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge, UK
I work part-time and my normal working days are Tuesday to Friday.
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