Project description
Understanding current social and environmental challenges
Climate change and the increasing frequency of natural and man-made disasters are clear indicators of severe ecological damage and multispecies suffocation, with climates and ecosystems worldwide enduring significant strain. Unfortunately, the lack of understanding of multispecies suffocation and its complexities, along with difficulties in current natural sciences research addressing environmental and social issues, has led to few solutions. The ERC-funded RESPIRE project aims to enhance understanding of multispecies suffocation and advance innovative natural sciences research by collaborating with organisations, artists, stakeholders, and scientists to address social and environmental challenges in a comprehensive way. Ultimately, the project will develop methodologies and pathways for a breathable future while fostering a deeper understanding of socio-environmental conditions.
Objective
We live in a time of multispecies suffocation. This is not a metaphor but a material process of contemporary multispecies living and dying on this planet. RESPIRE will address the fact that we do not know what this planetary multispecies suffocation consists of and will investigate how we can comprehend and transform it. It will do so through extensive fieldwork that includes collaboration with natural scientists, organisations, artists, and stakeholders. This approach is needed because the natural sciences study environmental problems but address them separately from social issues and do not offer an overall understanding of multispecies suffocation. The humanities offer important analyses of the effects of environmental and social degradation but no perspective for analysing planetary multispecies suffocation.
RESPIREs hypothesis is that to describe and understand multispecies suffocation, we need approaches that address social and environmental issues as interrelated, and need to strengthen the scientific role of the humanities and arts, which specialise in challenging established norms and beliefs.
We will analyse multispecies suffocation through the planetary lungs and their related problems: forests (deforestation), ocean (dead-zones low oxygen areas), and soil (peatlands). Our inductive inquiry from humanities and art-based research perspectives will deliver fundamental research that will contribute to future research on social and climate change-related issues by producing a socio-environmental interdisciplinary approach and revealing the respiratory and multispecies dimensions of current challenges. RESPIRE will also develop new respiration-focused methodologies, concepts, and innovative pathways for a more breathable future. The project will further develop the emerging field of Critical Respiratory Studies, in which the PI is one of the leading scholars, and bring a humanities and arts perspective to the natural sciences.
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3584 CS Utrecht
Netherlands
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