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Power, Performance and Protest at climate conferences. How collaborative event ethnography can enrich the study of global environmental governance.Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut at the Institute Colloquium of the Institute for Anthropological Studies in Culture and History
15 May 2025
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Public lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut, DFG Research Training Group Futures of Sustainability & Department of Social Sciences, UHH
Environmental mega conferences have become the format of choice in environmental governance. Conferences of the Parties (COPs) under the climate change and biodiversity conventions in particular attract global media attention and an ever-growing number of increasingly diverse actors, including scholars of global environmental politics. They are arenas for interstate negotiation, but also temporary interfaces that constitute and represent world society, and they focalise global struggles over just and sustainable futures. Collaborative event ethnography as a research methodology emerged as a response to these developments. The talk provides insights into the theory and practice of collaborative event ethnography, and presents research results from recent climate conferences in Glasgow (2021) and Dubai (2023).
