ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change
This project investigates how altering environments to adapt to or mitigate climate change depends on and stimulates changes in social contracts. Comparatively and ethnographically, it investigates when and how material transformations implied by adaptation gather new publics and produce new forms of ‘climate citizenship.’ By ‘climate citizenship,’ I refer to a form of situated globalism emerging from the articulation of existing, local social contracts (with their varying distributions of rights and responsibilities) and climate change as a global phenomenon. The project focuses on green infrastructure projects where material changes in environmental management depend on and create new…
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