Towards transition knowledge(s): cartographies and encounters within the environmental movement

Bc. Jakub Mácha

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Práce založená na etnografickém výzkumu protestních klimatických kempů v českém a německém kontextu. Ty jsou stavěny v blízkosti infrastruktur fosilního průmyslu a zahrnují v sobě vzdělávací i protestní aktivity. Zabývá se způsoby, jakými je v jejich kontextu produkováno vědění nutné ke společenské transformaci a udržitelné budoucnosti. Autor skrze onto-epistemologické přístupy zkoumá, jak se na produkci takovéhoto vědění podílejí ne-lidští aktéři. Zabývá se teritorializací a de-teritorializací kempů, které společněZároveň skrze reflexi vlastní pozicionality

Abstract:

The work is based on the ethnographic research of the protest climate camps in the Czech and German context. Climate camps are built near fossil industry infrastructures, lignite mines and power plants- the places of climate injustice. It explores the ways in which the knowledge necessary for social transformation and sustainable future is produced within their Framework. The summer schools of degrowth are complementary to the activities that are necessary for the camp maintenance and protest actions. Through the onto-epistemological approaches author examines how non-human actors are involved in production of such knowledge. For example, human-disturbed ecosystems or camp infrastructures that are based on the basis of autonomous design. It deals with the territorialization and de-territorialization of camps, which represent the convergence points of interconnected activist networks.

Keywords

knowledge production, transition, environmental movement, degrowth, militant research, positionality, climate justice, ontology, world-making, learning

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 10. 12. 2019

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 20. 1. 2020
• Supervisor: Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Ph.D.
• Reader: M.A. Irena Kašparová, Ph.D.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Social Studies

Master programme / field:
Sociology / Sociology