April 24, 2024

Social Sciences for the Real World (SS4RW) – 2024

SASE is pleased to announce the lineup for this year’s Social Sciences for the Real World event, to be held at the end of the SASE Conference in Limerick, on the 29th of June. 

Roundtable 1 – What role for social science academics in tackling the climate emergency?

16:15-17:45 Saturday, 29 June, 2024, FB028 – Foundation Building Basement (University Concert Hall) and online (link to follow). Program link: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/4988/program?session=110162&program&date=%222024-6-29%22

Abstract

Academics have been said to be living a “double reality” (Thierry et al 2023). On the one hand, academics are aware of the existential nature of the threats posed by climate change. On the other, they are, for the most part, silent on the climate emergency in their teaching, research, publications, and public engagement. What does it take to break such “climate silence” (Scoville and McCumber 2023), and to do what? Some, like climate scientist Michael Mann, call for those who have an audience to use that privilege to raise awareness and trigger action. Others, like Latour, have called on academics to support all who are striving to live back “down to Earth”, by working with them rather than telling them what to do (Latour 2018). 

Moderator: Dr Aleksandra Jordanoska, King’s College London 

Academic participants:

  • Dr Laura Horne, Roskilde University 
  • Dr Fergus Green, University College London

Practitioner participants: 

  • Dr Julien Etienne, independent consultant
  • TBC

 

Roundtable 2 – What should be regulation’s role in the Anthropocene?

18:15-19:45 Saturday, 29 June, 2024, FB028 – Foundation Building Basement (University Concert Hall) and online (link to follow). Program link: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/4988/program?session=110163&program&date=%222024-6-29%22

Abstract

Regulation has been an enabler of the Great Acceleration (Steffen et al. 2015) that has put Earth on its current path of growing uninhabitability. In spite of calls to rethink regulation and policy design on the basis of planetary boundaries (Parker and Haines 2018; Tsermer et al. 2019), regulatory scholarship and regulatory practice remain dominated by the same tropes of the past decades: economism (Short 2023), risk-based frameworks, technological neutrality, etc. Meanwhile, the rapidly multiplying extremes of a broken climate and crumbling biodiversity have begun wiping out decades of progress on housing, working conditions, public health, food security, all of which are regulated issues.  

Moderator: Julien Etienne, independent policy consultant

Academic participants:

  • Prof Megan Bowman, King’s College London 
  • Dr Janina Grabs, University of Basel

Practitioner participants:

  • Dr Larry O’Connell, Director of the National Economic and Social Council
  • TBC
Tags
news