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。尽管学术工作很突出，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，调动创造性的方法来探索未来如何在当代气候行动主义中产生和传播。无论未来是被设定为一个灭绝的时间，还是通过紧急情况的紧迫性，当代气候行动主义都是由对未来的主张所激励的。然而，尽管它们的频率和规模不断增加，但很少有人注意到最近的气候抗议活动中未来究竟是如何存在的，以及它们与人类和非人类纠缠越来越多地被认可的新背景的关系，通过与新气候行动主义的三个核心运动合作，灭绝叛乱（XR），未来星期五（FFF）和Black LivesMatter UK（BLMUK），这个项目将研究如何未来的气候activismare形成，以及他们对制定活动家的主观性的影响。什么类型的期货在最近的气候活动中流通？哪些智能体在这些未来世界中繁衍生息？这些共同未来的存在如何改变人类的主体性，以及活动家、其他人、非人类世界和行动者之间的关系？该研究将通过民族志，访谈和艺术补充访谈，特别是绘画作为方法，与运动中的活动家合作。至关重要的是，这部作品将对我们这个时代最重要的运动之一产生重要的影响。

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.