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Touring the carbon ruins: towards an ethics of speculative decarbonisation

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dc.contributor.author Raven, Paul Graham
dc.contributor.author Stripple, Johannes
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-03T06:58:35Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-03T06:58:35Z
dc.date.issued 2021-12
dc.identifier.citation Raven, P. and Stripple, J. (2021) Touring the carbon ruins: towards an ethics of speculative decarbonisation, Global Discourse, vol 11, no 1-2, 221–240, DOI: 10.1332/204378920X16052078001915 sm
dc.identifier.issn Online ISSN 2043-7897
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1332/204378920X16052078001915
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/3665
dc.description 20 p. ; PDF sm
dc.description.abstract For many years, questions about the future have been marginalised within the social sciences: asking how we might live in a post-fossil society, or what are the key decisions and events that could take us there, has been seen as outside of the disciplinary scope. In this paper – which takes as its point of departure the ‘speculative turn’ that is increasingly inspiring a range of works, from foresight scenarios to design fiction – we insist on the need to invent methods and practices which provide speculative spaces that allow such questions to be articulated. We use our own speculative initiative, ‘The Museum of Carbon Ruins’, to foreground a series of ethical questions that accompany such speculative endeavours, but which have so far been neglected in contemporary discussions. Working within a critical utopian modality, Carbon Ruins does not foreclose ethical possibilities, but allows citizens to grapple with, evaluate, amend and critique the post-fossil futures that official policy is striving towards. sm
dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by REINVENT Decarbonisation (funded by the EU H2020 research and innovation programme Grant Number 730053), and Climaginaries, a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas. sm
dc.language.iso en sm
dc.publisher Bristol University Press sm
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Discourse • vol 11 • no 1-2 • 221–240;
dc.subject speculative methods sm
dc.subject critical utopia sm
dc.subject decarbonisation sm
dc.subject imaginaries sm
dc.subject futures sm
dc.subject ecomodernism sm
dc.title Touring the carbon ruins: towards an ethics of speculative decarbonisation sm
dc.type Article sm


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