Christine Hämmerling, Alexander Koensler, Marion Näser-Lather - Utopias of Sustainability

A cura di:
Christine Hämmerling, Alexander Koensler, Marion Näser-Lather
Utopias of Sustainability – The Sustainability of Utopias

A Multimodal Intervention

Isbn: 9788893926041
Pagine: 206
Anno di pubblicazione: 2025
Collana: Political Imagination Laboratories

As utopias of a better world appear increasingly as ephemeral, precarious and fragile, concepts related to sustainability, the environment and rurality seem at the forefront of contemporary impulses for social change. This volume collects both paper and ethnographic film contributions of the fourth Political Imagination Laboratory. The core theme is ‘Utopias of Sustainability–The Sustainability of Utopias.’ Examples include experiments with self-production, new forms of horizontal cooperation, new understandings of rural-urban and nature-culture relations, and reflections on the longevity of social movements. We ask: Which more or less visible utopian impulses haunt contemporary forms of activism? How are, for example, concepts like sustainability, rurality and nature employed by different actors? To which ideologies and/or utopias are these connected? In which context is and is not sustainability, rurality or ecology invoked? How can discourses and practices of sustainability, rurality, ecology and similar concepts be made visible by ethnographers?

Informazioni sugli autori
Christine Hämmerling, PhD (Göttingen), is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Göttingen, where she works on her postdoctoral project on performed authenticity in times of economisation and digitality – in NPO fundraising, with social media influencers, with vendors and organizers of street magazines, and regarding ‘social media detox’. Her research interests include social movements, media usage at demonstrations, work cultures, trust, ego documents, popular taste, media theory & reception, and the anthropology of space.

Alexander Koensler si interessa da anni di antropologia politica, di attraversamenti di frontiera e di movimenti sociali in Israele. Sta completando il Dottorato di ricerca in “Metodologie della ricerca etno-antropologica” (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Siena e Cagliari) e collabora alla didattica del corso di Antropologia visuale presso la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Perugia.

Marion Näser-Lather è professore di Etnologia europea all’Università di Innsbruck. Dopo il dottorato ha ricoperto posizioni di post-dottorato a Paderborn, Marburg e Innsbruck ed è stata ricercatrice ospite presso le Università di Messina, Perugia e Amburgo. Tra i suoi interessi di ricerca vi sono lo studio sui movimenti sociali e di genere, la digitalizzazione e gli aspetti metodologici ed etici della ricerca in campi sensibili.

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