Conférence internationale : Challenging the climate consensus. 7/8 mars 2013

Conférence internationale "Challenging the climate consensus. Perspectives from the social sciences and humanities to analyze ’skepticism’ and ’dissonant voices’ on mitigation and adaptation in the climate change debate."

Organisée par le GIS Climat Environnement Société, cette conférence prend comme objet le scepticisme organisé et les "controverses" diverses autour du changement climatique, qui questionnent nos outils et méthodes en sciences sociales. Elle vise à confronter différentes approches à l’analyse de ces phénomènes, afin de déterminer ce que celles-ci permettent de voir et quelles sont leurs angles morts.

La conférence, qui se tiendra en anglais, aura lieu les 7 et 8 mars à Meudon (10 min de la gare Montparnasse en train).
L’inscription est gratuite : www.gisclimat.fr.

Bien cordialement,

Contact : Stefan Aykut

Workshop outline

Climate change has in recent years moved from being mainly a physical phenomenon to being
simultaneously a political, social, cultural and ethical phenomenon. At present, both individual and
collective attitudes and behaviour seem an equally serious challenge in the climate issue as scientific
knowledge of the phenomenon itself. In this the various representations of climate change are crucial. The
understanding of such representations, which would contribute to an improvement of the climate change
knowledge base, calls for interdisciplinarity. With this as a starting point, the present workshop aims at
generating fruitful discussions on different kinds of representations (linguistic, cognitive, cultural, social)
and on the possibilities for crossdisciplinary collaboration.

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