Online Conference of the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”
22. November 2022
Online Conference of the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”:
22. - 24. November 2022
»CLIMATE COLONIALITY«: MECHANISMS, EPISTEMOLOGIES, SPACES OF RESISTANCE
The search for technical and market-oriented solutions to combat climate change is in full swing. Electric vehicles, the massive expansion of renewable energies, green hydrogen, geoengineering, as well as carbon trading, are key issues of global climate politics and increasingly influencing national and supranational agendas. Notwithstanding their actual relevance for reducing CO2-emissions, these climate solutions, however, are often associated with environmental injustices and neocolonial dependencies on which we will focus in this conference, following Farhana Sultanas’ (2022) term of »climate coloniality«.
We will have a look on the myriad ways and mechanisms with which the fight against climate change and new patterns of colonial domination in both the Global North and South are intertwined. Furthermore, the conference discusses how climate and environmental research and governance maintain and reinforce colonial epistemologies and power relations. Beyond that, we will especially look at counter-narratives and imaginaries, spaces of resistance, and attempts to decolonize climate change in favor of plural ways of knowledge creation.
The conference is hosted by the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies »Futures of Sustainability« at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and supported by the Instituto de Bioética and the Facultad de Filosofía, of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana at Bogotá, Colombia.