Descripción del proyecto
Volver a coordinarse con los cambios de estación
Los rápidos cambios climáticos, naturales y sociales hacen que las representaciones estacionales no estén sincronizadas con el tiempo. Por ejemplo, una «Navidad blanca» es ahora un recuerdo lejano en muchas partes del mundo. Este es solo un ejemplo de las representaciones estacionales, que pueden adoptar diferentes formas como historias, imágenes, experiencias, previsiones científicas, signos naturales, proverbios o prácticas. En el proyecto CALENDARS, financiado con fondos europeos, se estudiará cómo el cambio climático puede estar socavando los conceptos o representaciones de las estaciones tal y como las conocemos. La hipótesis es que las personas no pueden adaptarse bien a los cambios de estación si viven según ideas anticuadas e inexactas. Esto es importante si se tiene en cuenta que todas nuestras instituciones —desde las escuelas hasta los hospitales, pasando por las administraciones públicas y los clubes deportivos— programan actividades en función de diferentes representaciones estacionales.
Objetivo
Climate change may be undermining the stock of seasonal representations that society draws on to understand and live according to the weather. The CALENDARS project studies how modern society represents seasons, and how these representations shape institutions and help people live with seasonal change. The project opens an important emerging field in climate adaptation research by examining the representations of ‘normal’ seasons underlying key institutions, assesses their quality for successful adaptation to rapid climate change, and analyses facilitators and barriers to adopting representations more flexibly to new climates. It contributes a novel perspective on how to transform our institutions – from schools to farmer cooperatives – from the foundational culture and representations up, to better fit the changing seasonal cycles we are experiencing.
CALENDARS empirically explores the relationship between different institutions’ ideas of seasons and their successful adaptation through an in-depth comparative study of a set of institutions in two local communities, in Norway and New Zealand. It is steered by an overall objective to: ‘Advance knowledge and understanding of how seasonal representations shape and are shaped by institutions, and critically appraise the quality of these representations for contributing to successful adaptation to seasonal change’.
Conceptually, CALENDARS looks at representations as continuously ‘co-produced’ at the boundary of nature and society, and society and institutions. It tests a novel reconceptualisation of co-production as a prism; with each of the project’s three phases looking at the complex processes by which representations emerge through different ‘lenses’ of co-production. Methodologically, the project tests the feasibility of a novel basket of bespoke methods spanning narrative interviews, calendar boundary objects and collaborative sustainability science.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
5020 Bergen
Noruega