IMIC: Imaginaries in Crisis

危机的语言在当代可持续性话语中无处不在，与“气候紧急情况”、“临界点”、“灾难性威胁”和“社会灾难”等术语的扩散有关。虽然在特定的可持续性问题的背景下，危机框架的政治影响和治理影响早已得到认可和批评，但很少有系统地关注危机与更广泛的集体想象力之间的关系。在缺乏对这些动态的充分理论化的情况下，存在一种风险，即可持续性的话语和实践通过允许危机思维主导可能性的地图而成为关闭可能性的想象空间的同谋。本项目以加拉帕戈斯群岛农业转型的历史为背景，试图研究危机叙事如何塑造可持续发展的历史，以及有何影响。该项目将汇集STS奖学金对社会技术的启示，女权主义和非殖民地的奖学金对危机的政治，从影响理论的见解，以期深化危机的叙述和未来可能的启示之间的关系的概念性理解，并有助于学术和政策辩论围绕“转型到可持续性”在加拉帕戈斯和超越。在可持续性行动研究的传统中，拟议的项目着手从加拉帕戈斯的背景中学习和干预：通过与不同的行动者进行详细的人种学实地考察，“从底层”建立具有广泛学术和社会意义的理论见解，在多重危机叙述的交汇处重新想象加拉帕戈斯的农业;并为想象群岛的可持续食品未来开辟“可能性空间”。

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.