The 2051 Munich Climate Conference : : Future Visions of Climate Change / / ed. by Andreas Wehrl, Benno Heisel, Theresa Spielmann, Christina Wehrl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• HerausgeberIn: Heisel, Benno,; Spielmann, Theresa,; Wehrl, Andreas,; Wehrl, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Neue Ökologie ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

In September 2021 a very special academic conference took place: T2051MCC - The 2051 Munich Climate Conference. Researchers from across the academic spectrum assembled to discuss climate change. What made it special was that everyone held their lecture as if it took place in an imagined year 2051. The theatre collective Büro Grandezza had released an open call for contributions to a conference in Munich. Almost 50 researchers wrote papers on climate narratives, geoengineering, coastal adaptation and other topics. This particular framework allowed them to break out of the constraints of the current discourse without neglecting methodology or thematic sharpness.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Online ressources -- First keynote speech: Saleemul Huq -- Another world was possible: How sociological imagination could have helped solve the climate crisis -- 1001 scenarios for a troubled earth -- Failing images. How the visual discourse on climate change changed nothing in the age of visual communication -- Shroud for an ancient sea -- A museum of carbon ruins? Reflections on the ethics of memorialising decarbonisation -- Earth operations management - How managers found their right business A fictional science development review -- Dear agony aunt - above 2º celsius -- Second keynote speech: Adenike Oladosu -- Third keynote speech: Elisabeth Wathuti -- Climate barbarism -- Dear agony aunt - sub 1.5º celsius -- The delegation from Kathmandu: an indigeno-futurist exercise in critiquing climate policy -- LEIKHĒN - An audiovisual experience inspired by a symbiotic relationship -- Fourth Keynote speech: Helena Gualinga -- Minimising greenhouse gas emissions and waste of T2051MCC -- Further Contributions -- Contributors -- Picture credits