22.-24.11.22 - Online Conference: "Climate Coloniality"

26. Oktober 2022

Invitation on behalf of the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” to their online conference:

 

»CLIMATE COLONIALITY«: MECHANISMS,
EPISTEMOLOGIES, SPACES OF RESISTANCE

NOVEMBER 22nd–24th, 2022
Online Conference

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 Universität Hamburg, Germany, and supported by the Instituto de Bioética and the Facultad de Filosofía, of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana at Bogotá, Colombia.

For the detailed program and updates, please visit the conference website.

Registration: Please register by sending an e-mail to: zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit"AT"uni-hamburg.de. See here for more information.