Cultural aspects of the climate crisis: meanings, denials and desires of environmental relatedness

Prof. Mauro Van Aken

English

Climate changes are a definitely a geophysical dynamic, but represent a very cultural and social issue in their impacts, causes and challenges. Departing from anthropological perspective, combined with tools of different disciplines of the human sciences that are reshuffling the nature/culture divide of modern carbon economy, we will analyze together the multiple cultural and symbolical aspect of environmental relatedness in different societies. This will allow to tackle issues, at the center of research in the Anthropocene as cultural models of the environmental relatedness, fossil cultures and symbolical apparatus, cultural processes of denial and the social relations with/in the atmosphere.

The course is transversal to all schools of PhD, the first 4 hours will be a dialogical seminar introduction, while the second part will be a laboratory interplay with the participants.
Seen the methodology used, the course, even more in its laboratorial aspects, requests an active presence in class of participants. It will be streamed online just for those who are not able to participate physically in class as workers and eventually external PhD’s

Active presence to both seminars and participation at the "execise" and focus analysis of the second lab

1 CFU - 8 Hours

24/01/24 9 am - 1 pm U6-36
20/02/24 2 pm - 6 pm U6-01c
active presence in class+online streaming

course registration on “Segreterie online”: from 04/01/24 to 21/01/24

Cultural aspects of the climate crisis: meanings, denials and desires of environmental relatedness

Prof. Mauro Van Aken

English

Climate changes are a definitely a geophysical dynamic, but represent a very cultural and social issue in their impacts, causes and challenges. Departing from anthropological perspective, combined with tools of different disciplines of the human sciences that are reshuffling the nature/culture divide of modern carbon economy, we will analyze together the multiple cultural and symbolical aspect of environmental relatedness in different societies. This will allow to tackle issues, at the center of research in the Anthropocene as cultural models of the environmental relatedness, fossil cultures and symbolical apparatus, cultural processes of denial and the social relations with/in the atmosphere.

The course is transversal to all schools of PhD, the first 4 hours will be a dialogical seminar introduction, while the second part will be a laboratory interplay with the participants.
Seen the methodology used, the course, even more in its laboratorial aspects, requests an active presence in class of participants. It will be streamed online just for those who are not able to participate physically in class as workers and eventually external PhD’s

Active presence to both seminars and participation at the "execise" and focus analysis of the second lab

1 CFU - 8 Hours

24/01/24 9 am - 1 pm U6-36
20/02/24 2 pm - 6 pm U6-01c
active presence in class+online streaming

course registration on “Segreterie online”: from 04/01/24 to 21/01/24