Скачать с ютуб What were we thinking? ISCIA Seminar 17, Agency and constraint in the Anthropocene в хорошем качестве

What were we thinking? ISCIA Seminar 17, Agency and constraint in the Anthropocene

The ISCIA Seminar: "What were we THINKING???" " Thinking and acting": Roundtable exploring agency and constraint in the Anthropocene Facilitated by Emma Hay (ISCIA Postdoctoral Fellow, Nelson Mandela University) An urgent question emerged from our previous roundtable discussion: What can I, you, or anybody do to bring about social change? The seminar highlights changing thinking, but is this enough? This roundtable invites you to share in an open dialogue addressing action and social change. How do we understand the relationships between the individual (micro), social (meso), and societal (macro)? Is it just the social structures that have the capacity to both constrain and enable action? What are social structures? Can we see them as groups of "knowledgeable" and "enabled" agents acting together (Giddens)? Is it more complex? Davis & Sumara (2007: 469) write, "Each of us is, all at once, a collective of agents, a coherent unity, and a part of other emergent unities." How, then, do we approach the notions of agency, responsibility and freedom? What should social change look like; where does agency lie; how do we grapple with constraints? Are these the right questions to ask? Emma is a postdoctoral research fellow with the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Identities and Social Cohesion in Africa (ISCIA), Nelson Mandela University. Her work centres on ecological thinking, and examines the overlap between social identity, subjectivity, and environmental ethics. Emma's contribution to theorising ecological discourse and practice follows on from her doctorate, which, in response to ecological destruction, is an interdisciplinary study that addresses the complexity of social-ecological agency through the notion of response-ability.