Beyond Extinction: Climate Activisms and the (Re)Making of Futures

气候行动主义是我们这个时代最紧迫的运动之一。尽管学术工作非常突出，但它忽略了气候行动主义核心的一个关键概念：“未来”。这项研究直接解决了这一差距，动员创造性的方法来探索未来是如何在当代气候活动中产生和传播的。无论未来是被设定为一个灭绝的时代，还是通过紧急情况的紧迫性，当代气候活动家都是由对未来的主张所激励的。然而,尽管他们increasingfrequency和规模,人们却很少关注给期货存在最近气候如何抗议,和他们的关系一本小说背景的人工non-humanentanglement越来越认可,通过与三个运动新气候行动的核心,灭绝叛乱(XR)、未来(FFF)和黑色星期五LivesMatter英国(BLMUK),本项目将研究期货,动画气候activismsare如何形成的,以及它们对积极主体性形成的影响。什么样的未来在最近的气候活动中流传？在这些未来世界里有哪些代理人？这些共同未来的存在如何改变人类的主体性，以及存在于活动家、其他人、非人类世界和行动者之间的关系？这项研究将通过民族志、访谈和艺术补充访谈，特别是绘画作为方法，与运动中的积极分子合作。至关重要的是，这部作品将为我们这个时代最重要的运动之一提供批判性的启示。

Climate activism is one of the most pressing movements of our times. Despite its prominence,scholarly work has overlooked a critical concept at the heart of climate activism: 'the future'.This research directly addresses this gap mobilising creative methods to explore how futuresare produced and circulated in contemporary climate activisms. Whether the future is framedas a time of extinction, or through invocations of the urgency of emergency, contemporaryclimate activisms are animated by claims about the future. However, despite their increasingfrequency and scale, little attention has been given to how exactly futures are present inrecent climate protests, and their relation to a novel context in which human and non-humanentanglement is increasingly recognised, By working with three movements central to thenew climate activism, Extinction Rebellion (XR), Fridays for Future (FFF) and Black LivesMatter UK (BLMUK), this project will examine how the futures that animate climate activismsare formed, and their effect on the enactment of activist subjectivities. What types of futurescirculate in the spaces of recent climate activisms? Which agents populate these futureworlds? And how does the existence of these shared futures transform human subjectivities,and the relations that exist between activists, other people, and non-human worlds andactors? The research will work with activists across the movements through ethnography,interviews, and arts-supplemented interviews, specifically painting as method. Vitally, thiswork will cast critical light on one of the most important movements of our times.