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SUMMARY:Speculative and experimental political ecologies for an age of cri
 sis\, hope and action - Maria Rusca (Manchester)
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CONTACT:María Inés Hernández
DESCRIPTION:Critique is integral to political ecology scholarship: its dia
 gnostic power\, combined with its ability to adapt and evolve\, has long p
 ositioned the field to generate critically informed theories that illumina
 te the political forces shaping contemporary and rapidly changing socionat
 ural challenges. Yet\, the hegemonic epistemological role that critique ha
 s come to occupy both within political ecology and in academia more broadl
 y\, have long been under scrutiny\, raising important debates about its ex
 planatory limits and its reparative or imaginative potential. In response 
 to these debates\, I explore the potential of a political ecology that app
 roaches socionatures more experimentally and speculatively\, particularly 
 in relation to ongoing struggles for and over climate justice in the city.
  I begin by examining different strands of scholarship that have problemat
 ised critique and make a case for approaching nature–society relations m
 ore experimentally and creatively. I then discuss emerging approaches in p
 olitical ecology that already gesture toward experimentation and speculati
 on. Finally\, I present two experiments developed collaboratively develope
 d by a team of hydrologists\, climatologists\, and political ecologists. T
 hese experiments illustrate one - among many possible - ways in which crit
 ique can be mobilised not only to diagnose contemporary and past socio-nat
 ures\, but also to explore and reimagine urban futures.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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