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Futuring for sustainabilityInhoudsopgave
Week 1 The World is Something that We Make.............................................................................................. 4
Week 2 The Politics of the Imagination........................................................................................................... 7
Futuring entry Encyclopaedia for Environmental Sociology.................................................................................7
Futuring in Climate Politics...................................................................................................................................8
Collective imagination......................................................................................................................................9
Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power....................................10
Sociotechnical imaginaries.............................................................................................................................11
Actornetworktheory (ANT).............................................................................................................................12
Week 3 Crisis of the Imagination: Myths & Rituals........................................................................................18
Karen Armstrong, Sacred Nature. Chapter 1......................................................................................................18
James Patterson et al. 2021. The Political Effects of Emergency Framings in Sustainability. Nature
Sustainability......................................................................................................................................................22
Tutorial 3: political effects of emergency framings............................................................................................22
Excerpts from: Amitav Ghosh. 2021 The Great Derangement. Selection can be found on Blackboard.............24
Week 4 Technocratic Sustainable Futures..................................................................................................... 27
Warde, Paul., Libby Robin., Sverker Sörlin. 2018. The Environment: A History of the Idea: p. 1- 25..................27
Week 5 Financial Futures and Sustainability.................................................................................................32
FINANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Patrick Bigger and Wim Carton.....................................................................32
FINANCIALIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL FRONTIER...............................................................................34
Financialization and its discontents....................................................................................................................35
Week 6 It’s not that Radical! Our Colonial Legacies.......................................................................................37
,This means that after following this course, students:
...understand the role of futures and futuring in relation to sustainability;
...are more aware of the need for alternative futures, on both ecological and social scientific
grounds;
...can formulate your own thoughts about plausible and desirable futures;
...have learned to debate and discuss beliefs, convictions, and scientific ideas in a nuanced
manner;
...are able to think critically about knowledge, frameworks, and other ideas about the fture;
...understand how imagined futures and their frames shape politics, economics, and society.
,Voorkennis:
Let the environment guide our development Johan Rockström
TED-Global, July 2010
The quadruple squeeze:
1. Population growth
2. Climate change ‘The big issue’
3. Ecosystem decline
4. Surprise
“Het is nu de tijd om de curven uit de diagrammen te buigen.”
Nine planetary boundaries met een veilige exploitatie ruimte voor
de mensheid:
“Hiermee is de planeet te ver onderstaan als een complex
zelfregulerend systeem.”
1. Climate
2. Stratosferische ozonlaag
3. Verzuring van de oceaan
4. Wisselwerking van grote cycli van stikstof en fosfor
5. Verandering in landgebruik
6. Mate van verlies aan biodiversiteit
7. Zoetwatergebruik (Functies die de biomassa op onze
planeet reguleren, koolstofopslag, diversiteit)
8. Luchtverontreiniging sulfaten en nitraten
9. Chemische verontreinigingen
Kate Raworth - On Doughnut Economics
“Wanneer we binnen onze plenaire grenzen blijven zal dit leiden tot meer creativiteit,
vindingrijkheid dan ooit omdat we het
moeten doen met het gene wat we
hebben.”
, Week 1 The World is Something that We Make
Lecture 1:
“The realtiy of climate change is here but the future remains unwritten. We stand at a
crossroad where our actions can still make a difference.”
“Without thinking critically about the future, about what we think is possible and what we
think is desirable, a sustainable world is forever out of reach”
What makes you most hopeful?
What do you worry about most?
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just
as easily make differently” - David Graeber
Key concepts: sustainability, environment, Anthropocene, planetary boundaries & the future.
Aaron Vansintjan. 2021. David Graeber: the Power of the Imagination:
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/david-graeber-the-power-of-the-imagination/
David Graeber & David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything, chapter 3: Unfreezing the Ice Age
(p. 78-119)
Voor Graeber zijn er twee soorten verbeelding.
1. ‘Imaginative identification’: (Fantasierijke identificatie)
Dit verwijst naar het vermogen om het standpunt van iemand anders in te beelden – de basis
van alle zorgzame en ondersteunende sociale relaties.
Het vermogen om zichzelf in de schoenen van een ander te verplaatsen is noodzakelijk voor een
functionerend democratisch systeem: zonder dit vermogen zou er geen compromis mogelijk zijn. Een
andere term die hij gebruikte om dit te beschrijven was interpretative labour.
2. ‘Immanent imagination’: (Intrinsieke verbeeling; binnen de structuur, inwendig)
Het vermogen om nieuwe sociale en politieke manieren van zijn voor te stellen en tot stand te
brengen.
Graeber beweerde dat het deze verbeeldingskracht is die het menselijk vermogen vormt om politiek
te zijn: om collectief te beslissen wat we met ons leven willen doen.
Eén manier om over immanente verbeelding na te denken is door het tegenovergestelde ervan,
‘ideological naturalisation' (ideologische naturalisatie), te beschouwen. Dit verwijst naar het
verdovende effect van hiërarchie en overheersing, waarbij de veranderlijke sociale conventie
verkeerd wordt geïnterpreteerd als de natuurlijke, onveranderlijke orde van het zijn. Het sociaal-
darwinisme is een klassiek voorbeeld. De voorstanders ervan gaan ervan uit dat ‘survival of the
fittest’ een universele orde is.
Chat GPT;
Ideological naturalisation is wanneer mensen ideologisch genaturaliseerd worden, betekent
dit vaak dat ze bepaalde ideeën, overtuigingen of waarden hebben overgenomen en deze
beschouwen als inherent aan hun identiteit.
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