Junior Fellow am Max-Weber-Kolleg von April bis August 2018
Website:
http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/46359036/020_andreas_folkers
Sociology of Decarbonisation/Metabolic Disorders
My post-doc project attempts to develop a Sociology of Decarbonisation. Empirically the project looks at different sites of decarbonization: financial markets, the interfaces between the science of microbiology, agriculture and climate mitigation, and the transition towards renewable energy infrastructures. The investigation of these specific sites serves as a vantage point to address more general theoretical questions: Is the decarbonization of society really a "great transformation"? What are the challenges for sociological theory to take into account questions concerning energy and the entanglements between nature and society?
During my time at the Max-Weber Kolleg I will engage with the more-than-sociological concept of metabolism which is particularly useful to understand the challenges that go along with the process of decarbonization. I will continue my work on the notion of metabolic disorders in which I draw on approaches from historical and new materialisms to show to what extent climate change can be understood as a „metabolic rift“ (Marx), or, respectively, as a disorder in the planetary carbon cycle.
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Universität Erfurt
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt (Campus)
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt