IMIC: Imaginaries in Crisis

在当代可持续发展的话语中，危机的语言已经变得无处不在，这与“气候紧急状态”、“临界点”、“灾难性威胁”和“社会崩溃”等术语的泛滥有关。虽然在具体的可持续性问题背景下，危机框架的政治影响和治理影响早已得到承认和批评，但对危机与更广泛的集体想象力之间的关系却鲜有系统的关注。在对这些动态缺乏足够的理论化的情况下，通过让危机思维主导可能性地图，可持续发展的论述和实践有可能成为关闭想象可能性空间的同谋。本项目以加拉帕戈斯群岛农业转型想象为基础，以经验为基础，力求研究危机叙述如何塑造可持续发展的想象，以及产生什么影响。该项目将汇集关于社会技术想象的STS学术、关于危机政治的女权主义和非殖民主义学术以及来自情感理论的见解，以期加深对危机叙述和可能未来想象之间关系的概念性理解，并促进加拉帕戈斯及其他地区围绕“向可持续发展转型”的学术和政策辩论。在可持续行动研究的传统上，拟议的项目着手学习加拉帕戈斯的背景并进行干预：通过与致力于在多种危机叙述的汇合下重新想象加拉帕戈斯农业的不同行为者进行详细的民族志实地工作，建立具有广泛的学术和社会相关性的理论见解；并为想象群岛的可持续粮食未来开辟“可能的空间”。

The language of crisis has become ubiquitous in contemporary sustainability discourse, associated with the proliferation of termssuch as 'climate emergency'; 'tipping points'; 'catastrophic threat' and 'societal collapse'. While the political effects, and governanceimplications of crisis framings in the context of specific sustainability issues have been long recognized and critiqued, there has beenlittle systematic attention paid to the relationship between crisis and the collective imagination more broadly. In the absence ofsufficient theorising of these dynamics, there is a risk that sustainability discourse and practice becomes complicit in closing downimaginative spaces of possibility through allowing crisis thinking to dominate the map of possibilities. Empirically grounded in thecontext of imaginaries of agricultural transformation in the Galapagos Islands, the present project seeks to examine the ways in whichcrisis narratives shape imaginaries of sustainability, and with what implications. The project will bring together STS scholarship onsociotechnical imaginaries, feminist and decolonial scholarship on the politics of crisis, and insights from affect theory, with a view todeepening conceptual understanding of the relationship between narratives of crisis and imaginaries of possible futures, andcontributing to academic and policy debates around 'transformations to sustainability' in Galapagos and beyond. In the tradition ofsustainability action-research, the proposed project sets out to learn from and intervene in Galapagos context: to build theoreticalinsights with broad academic and societal relevance 'from the ground up' through detailed ethnographic fieldwork with diverseactors working to re-imagine agriculture in Galapagos at the confluence of multiple narratives of crisis; and to open up 'spaces ofpossibility' for imagining sustainable food futures in the archipelago.