Contested Climate Justice in the Arctic (Part of CliCCS)

Antje Wiener is part of the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS)” which is among four of the projects (out of a total of 57 funded Clusters of Excellence in Germany) approved for the University of Hamburg in Germany's Excellence Strategy 2018.
Wiener, among several other members of the Centre of Globalization and Governance (CGG), will contribute to the overall aim of the project to investigate the relationship between climate changes and changes within societies. Project theme B „Climate-Related Dynamics of Social Systems” investigates socially plausible climate scenarios as well as adaption strategies and reflects on stakeholder practices regarding climate change related issues. Antje Wiener's project within project theme B focuses on Contested Climate Justice in the Arctic.
She is also, along with Stefan Aykut and Grischa Perino, chair of the project “B2 Dynamics of Climate Governance: Norms, Contestation, and Policies”. This part of the project especially focuses on increasingly diverse forms of climate governance and the development as well as contestation of climate justice norms. The turn away from state-centered approaches of climate governance to more diverse forms of stakeholdership that organize around the “keeping warming below 2°C”-norm, poses new challenges for the study of possible and plausible climate futures.  Further information about project B2 can be found here.
A first workshop, organized by project group B2 takes place at the CGG on February 6, 2019. The leading researches will take rounds in introducing their research agendas and after a short report on the Climate Conference in Katowice further planning on research within the Cluster of Excellence will be done. 

Further information about CLiCCS, participating researchers and institutions can be found on the project's flyer and official website.

For information about job announcements within the project “Dynamics of Climate Governance", please check the clusters website. Announcements for different positions will appear gradually.