CfP (NESS 2026): Future-making and storytelling: Imagining, narrating, and acting upon a changing environment

[Aysem Mert]

 

Dear Gep-Ed Colleagues,

 

Here comes another CfP for the 2026 NESS Workshops (Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, June 9-11, 2026, Uppsala, Sweden) convened by Sara Holmgren, Tatiana Sokolova, and me. Please find attached the detailed call for papers to Workshop 31 on “Future-making and storytelling: Imagining, narrating, and acting upon a changing environment”.

 

This workshop explores how imaginative and narrative practices such as storytelling, speculative methods, and participatory approaches can serve as both conceptual and methodological tools for rethinking environmental disruptions as well as green transitions.

 

Best wishes,

Aysem, Sara, and Tatiana

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Ayşem Mert, Ph.D.

(she/they, Dr./Mx. – why do pronouns matter?)

 

 

Associate Professor in Environmental Politics
Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
Universitetsvägen 10 F, 114 18, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Projects:

Environmental Governance Post Coronavirus Crisis: Practices, Politics, and Future Imaginaries (EPOC)

 

Living with WildFire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate (LiFi)

 

Nordic Space Infrastructures: Environment, Security, and Future Imaginaries of Outer Space in the High North (NordSpace)

 

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