C-Urge: Anthropology of Global Climate Urgency

该DN的总体目标是响应欧洲研究理事会和资助机构以及政府、公众和学生日益增长的紧迫感，即社会科学应该有助于我们对气候变化的理解和参与。我们提出，紧急行动的需要要求社会科学关注“紧迫性”本身的概念。我们希望培养博士候选人理解对环境和气候紧迫性的不同看法，它们的时间性，以及这些理解可能产生的政治和环境影响。10名博士生将在非洲、拉丁美洲、亚洲或欧洲开展民族志研究。这些科学家将在传播科学发现或在政治或发展相关背景下工作的组织中获得非学术的可转移技能。5所欧洲大学（鲁汶大学、爱丁堡大学、哈雷大学、乌普萨拉大学和卡塔尼亚大学）的专家与6名非学术合作伙伴和10名跨学科顾问委员会成员合作，以确保10名博士候选人将获得学术界和学术界以外的优秀培训机会。这确保了形成一批初级专家，他们将能够为对抗气候变化的破坏性影响作出贡献。C-urge响应《欧洲气候公约》的邀请，联系和分享有关气候变化的知识，制定、实施和扩大可能的解决方案，并为全球气候变化引发的不同程度的紧迫性提供定性、创新、多部门和跨学科的方法。C-urge产生的实地见解和知识最终将加强欧洲的政策、创新和应对气候变化及其在全球的影响。

The overarching objective of this DN is to respond to a growing urgency expressed by European research councils and funding agencies, as well as by governments, publics and students, that the social sciences should contribute to our understanding of and engagement with climate change. We propose that the need for urgent action demands that social science attends to the notion of 'urgency' itself. We want to train doctoral candidates in understanding different perceptions on environmental and climatological urgency, their temporalities, and the political and environmental implications these understandings may have. 10 PhD students will carry out ethnographic research in Africa, Latin-America, Asia or Europe. The researchers will gain non-academic transferable skills in organisations that either disseminate scientific findings, or that work in political or development-related contexts. Experts of 5 European universities (KU Leuven University, University of Edinburgh, Halle University, Uppsala University, and the University of Catania) team up with 6 non-academic partners, and 10 members of the interdisciplinary advisory board in order to ensure that the 10 PhD candidates will receive excellent training opportunities both in academia and outside academia. This ensures the formation of a cohort of junior experts who will be able to contribute to the struggle against the disruptive effects of climate change. C-urge responds to the invitation described in the European Climate Pact to connect and share knowledge about climate change as well as develop, implement and scale up possible solutions and offers a qualitative, innovative, multi-sectoral as well as trans-disciplinary approach to the various degrees of urgency that global climate change inspires. The on-the-ground insights and knowledge that C-urge produces will ultimately strengthen European policy, innovation and responsiveness to climate change and its impacts across the globe.