Project: Just Futures? Approaching Cultural Clim...

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Just Futures? Approaching Cultural Climate Models
Description:

The project responds to calls for more humanities research on climate change and investigates climate modelling beyond the scientific realm. Focussing on the topic of intergenerational justice, it seeks a better understanding of how influential texts and actors imagine the impacts and implications of climate change. 

Its key objectives are: 

1. to investigate how different kinds of texts engage in the cultural modelling of (un)just futures; 

2. to develop an interdisciplinary approach to cultural climate models that will be of wide benefit to researchers. 

The project is framed by interdisciplinary model theory, which conceives of models as representations of reality that reduce complexity and serve specific purposes. Its approach to climate models (1) understands qualitative cultural modelling of climate change as necessary complement to the dominant quantitative scientific climate models, and (2) analyses the intertwining of descriptive and normative components in climate debates. The project group brings together literary studies, linguistics, STS, and literature pedagogy to investigate how different texts move between seemingly neutral climate facts ("models of") and normative social values ("models for"). The sub-projects examine debates of climate change and intergenerational justice in Anglophone dramas and essays (WP 1), in social media (WP 2) and in the reception of literature in criticism and education (WP 3). 
Keywords: environmental humanities, climate futures, cultural modelling
Short title: FWF_CCM
Period: 01.06.2023 - 31.05.2026
Contact e-mail: -
Homepage: https://www.cultural-climate-models.org/

Employees
Employees Role Time period
Julia Hoydis
Julia.Hoydis@aau.at
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Research activities
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  • Project leader
  • Applicant
  • 01.06.2023 - 31.05.2026
  • 01.06.2023 - 31.05.2026

Assignment
Organisational unit
Fakultät für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften
  Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Universitätstraße 65 - 67
9020 Klagenfurt
Austria
   anglistik@aau.at
https://www.aau.at/en/english/
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Categorisation
Project type Research funding (on request / by call for proposals)
Funding type §26
Research type
  • Fundamental research
Subject areas
  • 602 - Linguistics and Literature
  • 105904 - Environmental research
Research Cluster
  • Humans in the Digital Age
  • Sustainability
Gender aspects Genderrelevance not selected
Project focus
  • Science to Science (Quality indicator: n.a.)
Classification raster of the assigned organisational units:
  • No classification raster available for the assigned organisational units.
working groups No working group selected

Funding
Funding program
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)
Organisation: Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)

Cooperations
Organisation Address
Universität zu Köln
Köln
Germany
DE  Köln
University of Leeds
Leeds
Great Britain & N.Ireland
GB  Leeds
The University of Sheffield
Great Britain & N.Ireland
GB  
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen
Universitätsstraße 2
45141 Essen
Germany
Universitätsstraße 2
DE - 45141  Essen