Data: Luns, 12 de marzo de 2024
Hora: 11:00 h
Lugar: Presencial e Online
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Resumo do relatorio (asbstract)
Speculative Futures in the Amazon and the role of social science
Marko Monteiro (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
I want to explore in this presentation two aspects of my ongoing engagement with the Amazon FACE experiment, currently being developed in Brazil. Firstly, the idea of science-based speculative futures through a reflection on the way the scientists are helping produce climate futures. Secondly, I want to expand on my ongoing reflection on the role of social science/scientists in large-scale environmental science (Monteiro, 2012, 2018, 2023; Monteiro & Rajão, 2017).The experiment makes use of Free Air CO2 Enrichment as a proxy for climate futures wherein climate change has run its course. Through large-scale infrastructures, the experiment helps coordinate and coproduce (Jasanoff, 2004)international ‘big science,’ international scientific and climate cooperation, and global horizon work (Petryna, 2018; Petryna, 2022) in and about the Amazon. I will explore the first perceptions of my ongoing engagement with the project, as both a direct participant and a would-be ethnographer of the experiment. I explore the idea of science-based speculation as ways of theorizing how this experimental system helps to produce and materialize climate futures, as well as present (and future) climate governance for Brazil and beyond.
