Just Futures? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Climate Models

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• 批准号: AH/X00189X/1
• 负责人: David Higgins
• 金额: $ 34.88万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX00189X%2F1
• 关键词: Just; Futures; Interdisciplinary; Approach; Cultural

This interdisciplinary project responds to calls for more humanities research on climate change by developing an innovative methodological approach to cultural models of climate futures. It focuses especially on the topic of intergenerational justice. The project group brings together literary studies, linguistics, science and technology studies and literature pedagogy to investigate how different text types - cultural forms such as literature, social media, and literature reception in educational contexts - move between seemingly neutral climate facts ("models of") and normative social values ("models for"). The project is framed by interdisciplinary model theory, which understands models as representations of reality that reduce complexity and serve specific purposes. The project's approach to climate models (1) understands qualitative cultural modelling of climate change as a necessary complement to the dominant quantitative scientific climate models, and (2) takes an analytical look at the intertwining of descriptive and normative components that constitutes climate debates. Three closely related 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 and communication of literature in criticism and education (WP 3).The project has two key objectives: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.In addition to the open access publication of project results in the form of a special issue and articles in various journals central to the disciplines involved, the dynamic project website (artistic director: Jasmijn Visser) will document the research process and disseminate the results as a virtual exhibition to a wider audience.The applicants each have a track record in internationally-leading publications on central and complementary thematic and methodological aspects of the project: Higgins (PI UK) primarily in literary studies research on climate change and in the Environmental Humanities generally; Hoydis (PI Germany) in literature and risk theory and climate change narratives; Pearce especially in digital methods of image analysis in social media representations of climate change; Schwegler in the field of multi-modal sustainability communication; Bartosch in educational research on the modelling of environmental literacy and in the Environmental Humanities generally; and Gurr in the field of model theory in literary and cultural studies and in literary studies in interdisciplinary research contexts. The project brings together the complementary research environments of the Universities of Cologne (Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities [MESH]), Leeds (Priestley International Centre for Climate), Sheffield (Digital Society Network, digital methods) and Duisburg-Essen (future and transition narratives, futures research in the humanities). The applicants are all centrally involved in these and related initiatives, and are therefore well placed to build a lasting and influential collaboration in environmental humanities research between the UK and Germany.

这个跨学科项目响应了对气候变化进行更多人文研究的呼吁，开发了一种创新的方法来研究气候未来的文化模型。它特别关注代际正义的主题。该项目组将文学研究、语言学、科学技术研究和文学教育学结合在一起，研究不同的文本类型--文学、社交媒体和教育背景下的文学接受等文化形式--如何在看似中立的气候事实(“模式”)和规范的社会价值观(“模式”)之间移动。该项目是由跨学科模型理论框架的，该理论将模型理解为降低复杂性和服务于特定目的的现实的表示。该项目对气候模型的方法(1)将气候变化的定性文化模型理解为对占主导地位的定量科学气候模型的必要补充，以及(2)对构成气候辩论的描述性和规范性组成部分的相互交织进行分析。三个密切相关的子项目考察了英语戏剧和散文(WP 1)、社交媒体(WP 2)以及批评和教育中的文学接受和交流(WP 3)中关于气候变化和代际正义的辩论。该项目有两个关键目标：1.调查不同类型的文本如何参与(UN)Just未来的文化建模；2.发展对文化气候模型的跨学科方法，使研究人员受益。除了以专刊和相关学科核心期刊文章的形式公开发表项目成果外，动态项目网站(艺术总监：Jasmijn Visser)将记录研究过程，并以虚拟展览的形式向更广泛的受众传播成果。申请者都有关于该项目的核心和补充主题和方法方面的国际领先出版物的记录：Higgins(英国)主要从事关于气候变化的文学研究和一般的环境人文科学；霍伊迪斯(德国派)，主修文学、风险理论和气候变化叙述；皮尔斯，特别是在气候变化的社交媒体图像分析数字方法方面；施韦格勒，多模式可持续性传播领域；巴托什，环境扫盲模型教育研究和一般环境人文科学；古尔，主修文学和文化研究以及跨学科研究背景下的文学研究。该项目汇集了科隆大学(人文学科中的多学科环境研究[MESH])、利兹大学(普里斯特利国际气候中心)、谢菲尔德大学(数字社会网络、数字方法)和杜伊斯堡-埃森大学(人文学科中的未来和过渡叙述、未来研究)的互补研究环境。申请者都集中参与了这些和相关的倡议，因此处于有利地位，可以在英国和德国之间建立持久和有影响力的环境人文研究合作。