Donnerstag, 15. März 2018, 18:30 - 20:00 iCal
Thursday Seminar
Energy, Culture, and the AnthropoScene
Sarah Strauss
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, HS-C
Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG); 4. Stock, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
Anthropology‘s holistic perspective gives us an opportunity to support and further efforts to find a path through the multi-causal, illdefined, shape-shifting, and socially complex ‚wicked‘ problems that define the newest geologic era: the Anthropocene. Here, I explore the nexus of climate change and energy in the context of social-ecological systems, drawing attention to the range of methods, strategies, theories, and policies employed to address these complex issues. Reshaping the relationship between people and their carbonaceous lifeworlds entails a shift in habitus; I present ways in which the notion of an ‚oasis regime‘ can catalyze such a metamorphosis, supporting change at the community, state, and national levels. The pairing of climate change and energy offers an ideal context for engaging with scholars, activists, policy-makers, and the wider citizenry, using our collective knowledge to build a more sustainable world.
What tools can we deploy to help us understand and move past this current stage to imagine a different energy future?
With whom should we collaborate to move past the dominant apocalyptic visions into a more sustainable version of the ‘good life’ with all it entails, from culture to culture and species to species?
Sarah Strauss (MPH, PhD) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. She has been an interdisciplinary fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany (2016-17), and held visiting appointments at Pondicherry University (Tamil Nadu, India, 2012-13) Department of Anthropology; University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Department of Geosciences (2005-6); and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, where she was Project Coordinator for the Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory (2008-9).
Strauss has conducted Fulbright and NSF funded ethnographic research in India, Switzerland, and the United States on topics related to health and the environment. Current research focuses on energy transitions (including biomass, solar, and wind), climate change, and community/ cultural transformation.
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Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Kontakt
Tabitha Schnoeller
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
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tabitha.schnoeller@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 15. März 2018, 10:23
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 15. März 2018, 14:29