Resources Utopia call
Events
-Call for contributions: “Struggles for Hope: Negotiating the Future in Times of Global Crises”. The workshop invites to explore the diversity of visions and practices of future-making in the global, multifaceted crisis of capitalist modernity. We seek to illuminate social contestations over collective futures: What kind of future is likely, what is desirable, what are possible ways to shape tomorrow’s society? What are people’s hopes, fears, ideas and strategies for a social transformation? The workshop promotes the exchange between research on everyday future-relations of nonactivist populations and utopian thinking and prefigurative practices of social movements. Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2021
When? 7 & 8 April 2022
Where? We hope for an on-site event at the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences. Yet, if the pandemic does not allow to meet in person, it will be an online event. If individual participants are not able to travel, a hybrid form is possible.
Costs? No fees. We are applying for funding. Contact us if you need support for travel & accommodation.
Contact: In case of any queries or uncertainties, please do not hesitate to contact us: corinna.land@sk.hs-fulda.de anja-julia.habersang@sk.hs-fulda.de
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Conferences
-Radical Climate Justice for the Global Commons: This conference invites pre-recorded talks and panel conversations devoted to concrete proposals and analyses addressing our cascading crises, assessing the kinds of movements that we have or need now, and imagining how we might connect both crises and movements in a common struggle for a better, more life- affirming and just global commons and future. The best way to see how the conference will work is to visit the website for the 2020 conference, “Confronting the Climate Crisis with Systemic Alternatives in the Age of Coronavirus. The conference opens on Monday, October 4 and will run till Monday, October 25. Call for submission is now closed.
-Energy ethics 2021: ‘Energy transitions and planetary futures’: Energy demand is growing, while urgent calls to reduce and mitigate the environmental impact of carbon emissions are intensifying. Transitioning our societies to low-carbon economies seems both inevitable and essential to planetary survival. In the lead-up to COP26, the Centre for Energy Ethics is hosting a virtual conference to reflect carefully and critically on envisioned energy transitions and what they might entail. Bringing together researchers across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, we ask: what visions of society and planetary futures are being put forth by ‘energy transitions’ around the world? What will their implications be? And how will they be realised? The conference will take place on October 25-27 2021
Articles
-Urgencies and imperatives for revolutionary (environmental) transitions: from degrowth and postdevelopment towards the pluriverse? A great piece of work on the relative notion of climate utopias. Whose climate utopias are we talking about?
Documentaries
-Journey to Utopia: A remarkable documentary on a family moving from their family farm in Norway to a permaculture community in Denmark. The camera follows them as they transition to this new life, sharing their difficulties and joys as their utopia becomes their new reality.