This research cluster was part of The Seed Box first phase 2015 - 2019.
Climate change has in recent years become much more than its scientific description. Matters of climate change and related environmental concerns are too important and too urgent to be left to climate science alone (Steiner & Nauser, Hornborg, Linnér, Lövbrand). While natural science offers us a key source of knowledge into these matters, there is growing understanding that ecological precarity is more than a set of objective facts and scientific predictions; social and cultural imaginaries (people’s perceptions) also actively shape the matters of climate change and the environment (Yusoff and Gabrys, 2011).
As outlined by Mike Hulme climate change is today a resourceful idea and imagination which can be moulded and mobilized to fulfil a bewildering array of political, social and psychological functions. As an idea climate change thus works as a powerful cultural and political space where competing understandings and embodied experiences of environmental problems, relations, places and responsibilities take form, stabilize, are contested and made anew.
In this research theme we trace social and cultural articulations of our changing climate across the worlds of science, policy, activism, artistic practice and every-day life. While engagements with climate change and its related weather events differ in terms of the knowledge they seek to create, the agents involved and the methods and practices through which they are undertaken, they all rely on forms of narrative: of telling compelling stories about the nature of contemporary environmental struggles and the means by which they can be mitigated, adapted to, or lived with.
Projects
Publications
Who Gets to Know about Nature? Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Through an Intersectional LensArticle by Anshelm, Jonas and Anders Hansson
Has the Grand Idea of Geoengineering as Plan B Run out of Steam?Workshop by Kaijser, Anna
Art and Humanities in Environmental Crisis: A Walking Workshop.Workshop by Lövbrand, Eva and Andrea Nightingale
The Politics of Emotion, Belonging, and Collective ActionSeminar by Hamilton, Jennifer
Weathering the City: The Poetics of Sydney’s Stormwater InfrastructureConference by Hamilton, Jennifer and Rebecca Giggs, Astrida Neimanis, Katherine Wight, Tessa Zettel
The Weathering Report: Notes from the Field and Shame in/as ResilienceLecture by Lövbrand, Eva
Climate Governance after Paris: Towards a New Political Vocabulary?Workshop by Lövbrand, Eva
The Anthropocene–A Story with Many EndingsWorkshop by Lövbrand, Eva
Climates of Justice.” Conference: Weatherfronts: The Stories We Tell.Workshop by Lövbrand, Eva
The Anthropocene: Environmental Crisis or Opportunity?Invited talk by Lövbrand, Eva
The End of What? The Nature Politics of the Anthropocene.Workshop by Neimanis, Astrida
Weathering (workshop)Seminar by Neimanis, Astrida
Environmental Humanities. Crossroads in Cultural Studies Early Career Researcher SeminarVisual Research Blog by Hamilton, Jennifer
Weathering the CityPublic blog by Hamilton, Jennifer
Property, Weather, and the Matter of Emotional Inheritance: Earth Day, 2016Article by Linnér, Björn-Ola and Viktoria Wibeck
Sverige bör ha en nollvision för växthusgasutsläpp.Stage performance by Linnér, Björn-Ola
Nu ska klimatavtalet bli verklighet.Lecture by Husberg, Hanna and Agáta Marzecová
Imaginaries and the Governance of AirExhibit by Husberg, Hanna
Often people ask how birds are affected by the airLecture by Husberg, Hanna
On air and imaginariesLecture by Husberg, Hanna
On air and imaginariesLecture by Husberg, Hanna and Agáta Marzecová and Liu Xin
Imaginaries and technoecologies of urban airStage performance by Husberg, Hanna and Agáta Marzecová
And then air became this number: PM 2.5, imaginaries and datapolitics of air in BeijingGrant Application by Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica and Blaise, Mindy
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Canadian Action Network (2017-2020)Blog entries by Taylor, Affrica and Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica and Blaise, Mindy
Blog entries in Common Worlds WebsiteSeminar by Hamilton, Jennifer
Reclaiming Resilience for an Ecofeminist Urbanismwebiste by Rooney, Tonya and Blaise, Mindy
Weathering CollaboratoryLecture by Blaise, Mindy and Rooney, Tonya
Listening to and telling a rush of unruly naturculture gender storiesSeminar by Hartman, Steven; Norrman, Peter
Project Bifrost: A Research-Arts Intervention On Climate ChangeConference paper by Kaijser, Anna
Art, Activism, Undisciplinarity and Politics at Climate Existence conferencePanelist by Brodén Gyberg, Veronica
Klimatrelaterat bistånd under luppLecture by Brodén Gyberg, Veronica
Aiding Science and Fighting Global InequalitiesBook by Hamilton, Jennifer
This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King LearSeminar by Pope, Simon
Dear Lindsay: About Discussion IslandArticle by Ballantyne, AG, and Glaas, E, Neset, T-S, Wibeck, V
Localizing climate change: Nordic homeowners’ interpretations of visual representations for climate adaptationPhD Thesis by Ballantyne, AG
Exploring the role of visualization in climate change communication – an audience perspectiveBook by Biermann, Frank and Lövbrand, Eva (eds.)
Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political ThinkingBook chapter by Lövbrand, Eva
Beyond Limits: Making Policy in a Climate Changed WorldArticle by Lövbrand, E., Beck, S., Chilvers, J., Forsyth, T., Hedrén, J., Hulme, M., Lidskog, R., and Vasileiadou, E.
Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene,Video by Erikson, Carl Johan and Willén Karin
10°C – Recipes from the archipelago of ForsmarkFree form role play by Fornell Hjelm, Jenny
Midsommarafton 2019 – ett spel om relationen mellan människa och miljöWorkshop by Andersson, Karin
Hantera din klimatångestWorkshop by The Shadow Places Network and Emily Potter, Fiona Miller, Eva Lövbrand, Donna Houston, Jessica McLean, Emily O’Gorman, Rod Gilbert, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Clifton Evers, Linda Tegg and Gina Ziervogel
The Shadow Places Network Illumination WorkshopBrief publication by The Shadow Places Network
A Manifesto for Shadow PlacesConference by Fiona Miller and 10th Biennial Conference of the Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies Network – Disruption and Renewal
Tracing the geographies of loss and displacement in an era of climate change (keynote)Workshop by Emily Potter
Walking the Murray, Reading MilduraSeminar by Linnér, Björn-Ola and Björn Wiman
Världens största nyhet – eller varför vi har så svårt att föreställa oss framtiden?Article by Neimanis, Astrida and Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
weatheringField Guide by Hamilton, Jennifer Mae and Neimanis, Astrida
A Field Guide for Weathering: Embodied Tactics for Collectives of Two or More HumansBook chapter by Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
Gardening after the Anthropocene: Creating different relations between humans and edible plants in SydneyReview Essay by Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
All the World’s a DrainConference by Neimanis, Astrida and Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene II: WeatheringConference by Neimanis, Astrida and Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene III: (what do we) WANT?Workshop by Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
Weathering the Apocalypse: Survival Skills WorkshopSeminar by Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
Hot in the City: Climate and Health in Urban EnvironmentsConversation Piece by Neimanis, Astrida and Hamilton, Jennifer Mae
The Weather is Now PoliticalArticle by Fish, Cheryl J.
“Liselotte Wajstedt’s Kiruna: Space Road: Experimental Ecocinema as Elegiac Memoir in ‘Extractivist’ SapmiBook by Jørgen Bruhn and Ida Bencke
Multispecies Storytelling Across MediaFilm by Andersson, Henrik and Petri Storlöpare /May-Britt Öhman
Winds of destruction (long version)Short film by Andersson, Henrik and Petri Storlöpare /May-Britt Öhman
Winds of destruction – Indigenous perspectives on “green” energy production in Sámi territoriesFilm by Andersson, Hampus and Petri Storlöpare /May-Britt Öhman
When the climate apocalypse comes I’ll make it: 16 year old Hampus Andersson’s survival month living off the lands and waters in the forests of Norrbotten, Sweden.Lecture by Husberg, Hanna and Agata Marzecova
On changing imaginaries and techno(eco)logical sensing of urban airWorkshop by Therese Asplund and Anna Emmelin; Maria Magdolna Beky Winnerstam
Narratives as a bridge‐building practice? Exploring threshold dilemmas in climate maladaptationConference by Anna Emmelin and Therese Asplund, Maria Magdolna Beky Winnerstam
Exploring narratives as a bridge‐building practice between different climate change story telling practicesExhibit by Muriuki, James and part of Assam Tea, Kenya – seed box project
Making sense – relationship beyond the plant (report from two artistic exhibitions).Series of participatory performance by Pope, Simon
Discussion IslandExhibit by Pope, Simon and Artscape
Discussion IslandStage performance by Pope, Simon and Stephens, Lindsay
Dear Lindsay: about Discussion Island