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“It’s my lecture and I cry if I want to” Navigating academic practices in a world on fire
In my contribution, I explore the contradictions and tensions of academic practices (mainly situated in a Northern European context, with anglo-american inflections) in the climate collapse. Against the background of an increasing discussion of the role, responsibilities and practices of academic practitioners in research, teaching, and outreach, I highlight several core dimensions that also resonate with broader discussions in International Relations, namely 1. the role of emotions in academic practices, most often the invisibility thereof, but more recently also the emerging discussion of e.g. climate grief in researchers 2. The boundaries of academic practices, specifically with regard to activism, eg. participation in protests and civil disobedience, and how these boundaries are reinforced, perpetuated, or contested in academic communities, and 3. embodied scholarship, that is how personal experiences of and situatedness within climate collapse are integrated (or marginalized) in research, teaching and academic communities.
