Dimensions of Climate Justice: Corelating an Upsurge?

Climate Justice Research Centre: Post-Grad workshop followed by Day seminar

Tuesday 10th December
6-8pm Cultures of Energy: Post-Grad Workshop

University of Technology Sydney, Quay Street, Bld 10, Lev 14, Rm 203 (10.14.203)

HDR students are invited to join anthropologists and co-hosts of the popular 'Cultures of Energy' podcast Dr Cymene Howe and Dr Dominic Boyer in a workshop on energy humanities scholarship and advocacy. This workshop is open for HDR and early career researchers working in the area of energy humanities, climate justice and infrastructure sociologies.

Attendees will learn about recent fieldwork conducted by Howe and Boyer in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec in order to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Attendees will be given the opportunity to discuss this work and ask questions regarding methodology, theory and analysis.Following this, attendees will be invited to make a short presentation of their related work to the group for further discussion and inspiration.

Contact for participants: Alana West, alana.west@uts.edu.au
Chairs/discussants: James Goodman and Alana West

Wednesday 11 December
10-4pm: Seminar: Dimensions of Climate Justice, Corelating an Upsurge? 

University of Technology Sydney, Quay Street, Bld 10, Level 2, Room 450 (10.02.450)

As society is 'climatised', climate is politicised. Climate justice agendas unfold across multiple social fields, from emissions, to sinks, to impacts. Climate-focused engagement, articulation and mobilisation has a cumulative effect; how can these corelate and reinforce the growing upsurge?

The Climate Justice Research Centre aims to encompass the widening social and political dynamics, and for this seminar researchers report on various strands of current research: the socio-ecological impacts of large-scale solar in India (D. Ghosh); dynamics for democratisation in regional energy transiitons in Australia (T. Morton); the politicisation of climate impacts and
solutions on Indigenous lands (H. Norman); responses to climate-related
heat stress in the workplace (F. Newman); the (mis)use of climate sinks
for emissions 'drawdown' (M. Fabinyi); sources of leverage for anti-coal activism (J. Goodman); political power and influence of the fossil fuel sector (J. Walker).

Centre members are joined by Dr Cymene Howe and Dr Dominic Boyer,
who will open the program with an overview of their research and
engagement in debates about Cultures of Energy, especially in terms of their multimedia work in advancing energy/environmental justice. See
their blog/podcast at Rice University: http://culturesofenergy.com/

1-2pm Book Launch
Wendy Bacon and Philip Bell will launch Jahnnabi Das' Reporting Climate Change in the Global North and South: Journalism in Australia and Bangladesh, Routledge, August 2019.

CJRC URL: https://www.uts.edu.au/researc...
Further Info: james.goodman@uts.edu.au
Pic: Tom Morton, Sign for Power Workers residents, Chhattisgarh coal region, Central India.