CFP: VIOLENCE AND CATASTROPHE IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY
The responses to these questions are vital to fully explore and contextualise the motives embraced by destructive political and social forces governing our world. In doing so, we have the opportunity of debating new shifts towards future alternatives to imagine the possibility of another world. This exploration also posits out policies to attain global sustainability and form strategies against violent practices and catastrophic risks. This online conference aims to theorise existential risks threatening humanity and our planet by centralising states, global corporations, and the established world system as responsible actors fostering the surge of global violence and the risks of catastrophe. This conference expects to stir-up new intellectual exchanges on this topic, and we invite anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers to participate in this event. We are particularly interested in receiving abstracts in the listed areas noted below. However, we are happy to consider all submissions revolving around the urgent issues covering global violence and catastrophe.
- Climate change and the destruction of the planet
- Global existential risks in the Anthropocene
- Military conflicts and weapons of mass destruction
- Global risks posed by drones, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology
- Inequality and injustice in the excessive access to resources and consumption of it
- The role of media and propaganda in the concealment of catastrophic risks
- Social protests and rebellions against global insecurity and the risks of catastrophe
- Policies to defy global insecurity, violence, and catastrophe
- Imperialist and colonialist projects/events that have increased the risk of extinction, global violence and catastrophe
- The great fear for the catastrophic destruction and the sociology of emotions
- Global responsibility in the face of existential risks
- Imagining our future after the catastrophe
- Experimental utopias to create a sustainable world order in the epoch of extinction