These days are part of a context of renewed attention to the environmental issue at a time of combined socio-ecological crises (climate, biodiversity, water-energy-food...). It is a question of helping to take the measure of these crises (scales, intensities, rhythms...), to understand the new collectives they generate as well as their ability to adapt to situations of collapse.
The human and social sciences of the environment have a major role to play in studying the renewed relationships between humans and non-humans in the context of these global socio-environmental changes. By revisiting a certain number of inherited categories (nature / culture, scientific / secular...), they can highlight the cultural, political, institutional, ethical and aesthetic transformations that lead to new paths of socio-ecological transitions.
These Environmental Humanities Days aim to measure the potential for research and collaboration on six themes: collapse, earth policies, human-animal relations, materialities, humanities smugglers, eco-feminism.
They aim less to present research results than to support a dynamic exchange on the issue of Environmental Humanities in order to identify elements of a shared scientific agenda. This process could usefully inform the dynamics of the PSS Cluster, whose axis 3 is now entitled "Territories, Governments, Transitions, Environmental Humanities, (in)justices". The challenge is no small one. More than just a tidying up of the term "sustainable development", it is a question of being a force for proposing a scientific agenda in this field, opening up the environmental question to a diversity of intellectual traditions, social collectives and imaginations.
Objectives :
- reformulate the environmental question (move beyond the paradigm of "sustainable development") in order to open up to a diversity of intellectual traditions, practices, social collectives and imaginations;
- contribute to the structuring of Environmental Humanities by crossing intellectual traditions and approaches that are currently dispersed (collapse, earth policies, human-animal relations, materialities, humanities smugglers, eco-feminism);
- to measure the extent of a potential for interdisciplinary research and collaboration, primarily in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, without excluding the participation of researchers from other university centres;
- contribute to the writing of shared agenda elements to inform the dynamics of the PSS cluster (axis 3) and create a "leverage effect" for future research actions (projects, conferences)
