Just Futures? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Climate Models

这个跨学科的项目通过开发一种创新的方法论方法来研究气候未来的文化模型，以响应对气候变化进行更多人文研究的呼吁。它特别侧重于代际正义问题。该项目组汇集了文学研究，语言学，科学和技术研究以及文学教育学，以调查不同的文本类型-文化形式，如文学，社交媒体和文学接受教育背景-如何在看似中性的气候事实（“模型”）和规范的社会价值（“模型”）之间移动。该项目是由跨学科的模型理论框架，它理解模型作为现实的代表，降低复杂性和服务于特定目的。该项目对气候模型的方法（1）理解气候变化的定性文化建模是对占主导地位的定量科学气候模型的必要补充，（2）分析构成气候辩论的描述性和规范性组成部分的交织。三个密切相关的子项目审查了英语戏剧和散文（WP 1）、社交媒体（WP 2）以及批评和教育文学的接受和传播（WP 3）中关于气候变化和代际正义的辩论。探讨不同类型的文本如何参与（不）公正未来的文化建模;2。开发一种跨学科的方法来研究文化气候模型，这将使研究人员受益匪浅。除了以特刊和相关学科的各种期刊上的文章的形式开放获取项目成果外，动态的项目网站（艺术总监：Jasmijn Visser）将记录研究过程，并将研究结果以虚拟展览的形式传播给更广泛的观众。申请人均在国际上有良好的记录-关于该项目的中心和补充主题和方法方面的主要出版物：希金斯（PI英国）主要在文学研究，气候变化研究和环境人文一般;（PI德国）在文学和风险理论和气候变化的叙述;皮尔斯，特别是在图像分析的数字方法在社会媒体表示的气候变化; Schwegler在多模式可持续性通信领域; Bartosch在环境素养建模和环境人文学的教育研究中; Gurr在文学和文化研究以及跨学科研究背景下的文学研究中的模型理论领域。该项目汇集了科隆大学（人文学科多学科环境研究[MESH]），利兹（普里斯特利国际气候中心），谢菲尔德（数字社会网络，数字方法）和杜伊斯堡-埃森（未来和过渡叙事，人文学科未来研究）的互补研究环境。申请人都集中参与了这些和相关的举措，因此有能力在英国和德国之间的环境人文研究中建立持久和有影响力的合作。

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.