Sub-theme 15: [SWG] Social Movements and the Climate/Biodiversity Crisis: The Role of Organizing, the Organized, and Ourselves
Convenors:
Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Giuseppe Delmestri, LUISS University, Italy
Stefanie Habersang, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 07:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
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Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 19:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:15
Break 2: 18:15 to 18:30
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O & Stefanie Habersang
16.00 -17.00 Welcome and Getting to know each other
Please prepare one slide or one artifact that represents yourself or your involvement in activism or any other activity you want to share
Break 17.00-17.15
First session 17.15 to 18.15: Making Climate Futures Across Generations
• Beyond participation: Configurations of internal climate activism across generations
Main author: Annalisa Bonavita
Discussant: Dan Peeters
• Under Shades They Will Never Sit: Other-Oriented Future-Making in An Elderly-Led Climate Movement
Main author: Daan Peeters
Discussant: Annalisa Bonavita
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O
Break 18.15- 18.30:
Second session 18.30 to 19.30: Contesting Theories, Creating Value: Governance Pathways for Grand Challenges
• Societal Governance: Orchestrating value creation in the face of grand challenges across diverse international contexts
Main author: Zlatko Bodrožić
Discussant: Rachelle Belinga
• Contesting performative theories: How social change agents overcome theoretical lock-in in the context of grand challenges
Main author: Rachelle Belinga
Discussant: Zlatko Bodrožić
Chair: Stefanie Habersang
Please prepare one slide or one artifact that represents yourself or your involvement in activism or any other activity you want to share
Break 17.00-17.15
First session 17.15 to 18.15: Making Climate Futures Across Generations
• Beyond participation: Configurations of internal climate activism across generations
Main author: Annalisa Bonavita
Discussant: Dan Peeters
• Under Shades They Will Never Sit: Other-Oriented Future-Making in An Elderly-Led Climate Movement
Main author: Daan Peeters
Discussant: Annalisa Bonavita
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O
Break 18.15- 18.30:
Second session 18.30 to 19.30: Contesting Theories, Creating Value: Governance Pathways for Grand Challenges
• Societal Governance: Orchestrating value creation in the face of grand challenges across diverse international contexts
Main author: Zlatko Bodrožić
Discussant: Rachelle Belinga
• Contesting performative theories: How social change agents overcome theoretical lock-in in the context of grand challenges
Main author: Rachelle Belinga
Discussant: Zlatko Bodrožić
Chair: Stefanie Habersang
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 08:00 to 10:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 09:00 to 09:30
Break 2: 10:30 to 12:00
Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri & Stefanie Habersang
Third session 8.00 to 9.00: Mobilizing Climate Activism across Contexts
• Escalation of conflict: When should investors escalate to radical climate activism?
Main author: Ben Neville
Discussant: Maren Stöber
• Seeing what sticks: Emotion-symbolic work in intersectional climate activism
Main author: Maren Stöber
Discussant: Ben Neville
Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri
Break 9.00-9.30
Fourth session 9.30-10.30: Sustaining environmental governance in contested institutional environments
• Documents in Dispute: Social Movements and Governance through Regulatory Documents in Fragmented Contexts
Main author: Khushi Malav Shah
Discussant: Pierre-Eloi Gay
• When Defending Science Becomes Political: Environmental NGOs and Justice Claims under Bolsonaro
Main author: Pierre-Eloi Gay
Discussant: Khushi Malav Shah
Chair: Stefanie Habersang
• Escalation of conflict: When should investors escalate to radical climate activism?
Main author: Ben Neville
Discussant: Maren Stöber
• Seeing what sticks: Emotion-symbolic work in intersectional climate activism
Main author: Maren Stöber
Discussant: Ben Neville
Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri
Break 9.00-9.30
Fourth session 9.30-10.30: Sustaining environmental governance in contested institutional environments
• Documents in Dispute: Social Movements and Governance through Regulatory Documents in Fragmented Contexts
Main author: Khushi Malav Shah
Discussant: Pierre-Eloi Gay
• When Defending Science Becomes Political: Environmental NGOs and Justice Claims under Bolsonaro
Main author: Pierre-Eloi Gay
Discussant: Khushi Malav Shah
Chair: Stefanie Habersang
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:15
Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri & Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O
Fifth session 16.00-17.00: Universities: Friends and Foes
• Fossil fuel hegemony in universities: The cycle of normalising corporate influence
Main Author: Maria Rogieri Pelissari
Discussant: Laísa S Magalhães
• University-Community projects and inclusive recycling: Participatory practices and waste pickers’ knowledge
Main Author: Laísa S Magalhães
Discussant: Maria Rogieri Pelissari
Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri
Sixth session 17.15-18.15: Local Realities and Sustainability Paradoxes
• Community sensemaking of wind power externalities in Brazil’s semi-arid: Contrasting macro indicators and local accounts
Main author: Diego Cristóvão Paes
Discussant: Pilar Acosta
• Identifying and Characterising Hybrid Paradoxes in Sustainability: Evidence from Scarce Common-Pool Resources
Main author: Pilar Acosta
Discussant: Diego Cristóvão Paes
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O
• Fossil fuel hegemony in universities: The cycle of normalising corporate influence
Main Author: Maria Rogieri Pelissari
Discussant: Laísa S Magalhães
• University-Community projects and inclusive recycling: Participatory practices and waste pickers’ knowledge
Main Author: Laísa S Magalhães
Discussant: Maria Rogieri Pelissari
Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri
Sixth session 17.15-18.15: Local Realities and Sustainability Paradoxes
• Community sensemaking of wind power externalities in Brazil’s semi-arid: Contrasting macro indicators and local accounts
Main author: Diego Cristóvão Paes
Discussant: Pilar Acosta
• Identifying and Characterising Hybrid Paradoxes in Sustainability: Evidence from Scarce Common-Pool Resources
Main author: Pilar Acosta
Discussant: Diego Cristóvão Paes
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 09:00 to 10:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 10:30 to 12:30
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O
Seventh session 09.00-10.30: Re‑Imagining Climate Futures: Radical Hope, Academic Activism, and Experiential Leadership
• What if Society Collapses? Re-envisioning Strategy and Organization Scholarship through Radical Hope
Main author: Pilar Acosta, Joel Bothello, Giuseppe Delmestri, Helen Etchanchu, Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O; Stefanie Habersang, Elke Schüßler
Discussant: Jacqueline Kirk
• Research as a path to activism: an academic’s journey into the climate assembly movement.
Main author: Jacqueline Kirk
Discussant: Bettina B.F. Wittneben
• Using Experiential Learning to Develop Climate Leaders
Main author: Bettina B.F. Wittneben
Discussant: Stefanie Habersang
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O
• What if Society Collapses? Re-envisioning Strategy and Organization Scholarship through Radical Hope
Main author: Pilar Acosta, Joel Bothello, Giuseppe Delmestri, Helen Etchanchu, Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O; Stefanie Habersang, Elke Schüßler
Discussant: Jacqueline Kirk
• Research as a path to activism: an academic’s journey into the climate assembly movement.
Main author: Jacqueline Kirk
Discussant: Bettina B.F. Wittneben
• Using Experiential Learning to Develop Climate Leaders
Main author: Bettina B.F. Wittneben
Discussant: Stefanie Habersang
Chair: Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O

