Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate Change

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a global crisis, but how it is understood and imagined differs immensely. These diverse imaginaries form our epistemologies of climate change, and in so doing open for an array of political and moral dilemmas, agencies, strategies and resistances. Critically engaging with feminist and queer perspectives, the course therefore addresses how embodiment, difference, imagination and environment intersect with, challenge and re-imagine climate change debates and its imaginaries.

Keynote: Priscilla Wald, Duke

Keynote: To be announced

The questions that we will critically examine throughout the course include:

• How is climate change imagined?

• What does it mean to think about climate change from feminist and queer perspectives?

• What are the ethical and political challenges raised by climate change and climate imaginaries?

• What other critical perspectives should we bring to climate change, and why?

Accreditation: Active participation in this workshop entails reading the literature (to be distributed prior to the course) from the point of view of the workshop questions and the researcher’s own research. 3 ects will be given for active participation and a short presentation – made in relation to one’s own research project, to select workshop literature, and to the workshop questions  –  and an additional 2 ects will be given for an essay submitted to the tutors no later than three months after the final day of the course. The essay should be around 10 pages (evaluated pass/fail).