What does "scaling-up" mean in your discipline?
“Scaling-up” is now considered central to responses to the climate crisis, particularly in policy and technological responses but also increasingly within different academic disciplines. There is a pressing need for considered and critical responses, for new narratives and ideas, for agendas that can help bring about the needed societal transformations. To have transformative power, thinking from the Humanities and Social Sciences cannot only speak to the predisposed, to academics and environmental activists, but it needs to be capable of engaging society far more widely, whether through the media and entertainment, education, or political conversations. “Scaling-up” might be one way to think of this expansion of our activities. In this roundtable discussion we consider the question of scales and scalability from a range of disciplinary positions. We ask what “scaling-up” means for your discipline/s, and how might it be undertaken – or not, as the case maybe. Participants may consider the implications for research, co-authored publications, teaching, policy and public engagement activities. The focus remains on developing strategies for collaborative climate crisis thinking that foregrounds humanities and social sciences approaches.
Suggested pre-reading:
Anna Tsing, 2012. On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales, Common Knowledge 18 (3): 505-524
Lunch and coffee will be provided.
Date:
4 March 2022, 12:00 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2022)
Venue:
Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
TORCH Seminar Room
Speaker:
N/A
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Part of:
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-does-scaling-up-mean-in-your-discipline-tickets-274895348387
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
