Sociological knowledge of the environment. Between Gaia and atmosphere, milieu and environment
Spring Conference of the Sociological Theory Section of the DGS
Please register at: bogner@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
Program
Thursday, May 15, 2025
11.00-11.15 a.m.
Greeting
11.15-13.30
Panel I: Historical perspectives
Martin Hauff: The social organism and its surrounding sphere. The concept of the environment in Albert Schäffle, a systems theorist avant la lettre
Arne Dreßler: Physical determinism as a revenant in the sociological theorization of the environment of action
Charlotte Renda: The background as a “co-designer” of social order. From the psychology of perception to a sociological concept
13.30-14.45
Lunch break
14.45-16.15
Panel II: Habitability/carrying capacity
Vicky Kluzik: Beyond carrying capacity. Contours of a political knowledge theory of economy and ecology
Martin Repohl: What it takes for planetary habitation. Transformative notions of totality and the concern for planetary habitability from a theoretical sociological perspective
16.15-16.45
Coffee break
16.45-18.15
Panel III: Environmental knowledge in the ethnographic research process
Karl Homuth: ‘Mimic the future’. The anticipation of climate change in the ecosystem manipulation experiment
Sung Un Gang: The homeostasis of the field and the ethnographic self. A reflection from field research on queer everyday spaces in Seoul
18.15-18.30
Break
18.30
Book launch: Ich-Sagen. A genealogy of situatedness with Florian Sprenger, Katharina Hoppe and Andreas Langenohl
Friday, May 16, 2025
9.30-11 a.m.
Panel IV: Inside and outside
Veit Braun: Intra muros, extra muros. On the return to the oikos
Jan Overwijk: A Radical Ecology of Wealth. Niklas Luhmann and Karl Marx
11-11.30 a.m.
Coffee break
11.30-13 h
Panel VI: (Anti-)Capitalist Relations to Nature
Christian Helge Peters: Sociology of the Garden. Renegotiating environmental relations in labor
Alexander Schröder: Thinking like a green strip. Static spaces and living networks in the Capitalocene
13-13.30
Final discussion
