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

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 emotional dimensions. 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, petro-cultures, its symbolical apparatus and complicities, cultural processes of denial and the social relations with/in the atmosphere.

The course is transversal to all schools of PhD in presence: we'll make of the multiplicity of your disciplinary trajectories the focus, in relation to ideas and notions of environment

The first 4 hours will be a laboratory setting where we will depart from your perceptions of climate changes (thus presence will be crucial), while the second part a following focus on some main aspects of the “unthinkable” of the climate crisis.
Seen the methodology used, the course, even more in its laboratorial aspects, it requests an active presence in class of participants.

presence and laboratory participations

1 CFU-8 ore

03/02/26 9 am - 1 pm U6-34
17/02/26 2 pm - 6 pm

course registration on “Segreterie online”: da definire

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

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 emotional dimensions. 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, petro-cultures, its symbolical apparatus and complicities, cultural processes of denial and the social relations with/in the atmosphere.

The course is transversal to all schools of PhD in presence: we'll make of the multiplicity of your disciplinary trajectories the focus, in relation to ideas and notions of environment

The first 4 hours will be a laboratory setting where we will depart from your perceptions of climate changes (thus presence will be crucial), while the second part a following focus on some main aspects of the “unthinkable” of the climate crisis.
Seen the methodology used, the course, even more in its laboratorial aspects, it requests an active presence in class of participants.

presence and laboratory participations

1 CFU-8 hours

03/02/26 9 am - 1 pm U6-34
17/02/26 2 pm - 6 pm

course registration on “Segreterie online”: to be defined

Staff

    Docente

  • Mauro Ivo Van Aken

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