BISA 2026 Conference

Knowledge Politics II (Futures and Limitations)

TH04

4 Jun 2026, 15:00

1h 30m

Panel Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Description

This panel is the second of three examining knowledge politics around climate and environmental politics. It specifically interrogates how climate futures are constructed and what limitations evolve from discourses about these futures.

Subcontributions

• Who cares about the Day After Tomorrow? Strategies of de/valuating the future in the political economy of climate security
• Imagining Inclusive Climate Futures from the Global South
• Storytelling Techniques of Corporate Environmental Pacts: Human Narratives and Techno-Optimism in Discourses for Corporate Governmentality
• ‘Climate Change Will Fix Climate Change’: The Oil Industry’s Heterotopia of Dividualization
• Constructing strategic climate litigation: how legal storytelling shapes new worlds