Unruly Climates, Contested Futures I

Imaginaries and Politics of Climate Resistance in Europe
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-593-52253-1
Verlag: Campus Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit

The future has become a key focus in the social sciences, both as a research topic and as a space for political imagination and resistance. Since the climate crisis has moved into public consciousness, with movements like Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, questions about what a climate- just future looks like – and how it can be achieved – have gained urgency.
This book explores how different collective actors imagine and shape the future in the context of climate justice. It examines tensions between radical transformation, post-growth, and green modernization, as well as the contrasting ecological visions of left-wing and right-wing activism. Future imaginaries are presented not only as visions, but also as tools for action – shaping resistance, inspiring self-organization, and influencing strategies for sustainable change.
Drawing on examples from grassroots climate movements, and other forms of collective action, this volume offers one of the first comprehensive
overviews of how imagined futures can guide political practice and societal transformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daniel, Antje

Adloff, Frank

Hwang, Juneseo

Jacobi, Philipp

Poscharsky, Luis

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Unruly Climates, Contested Futures
Antje Daniel, Frank Adloff, Juneseo Hwang, Philipp Jacobi and Luis Poscharsky

Thinking the Future
The Future Being Shut Down: Ambiguities of Modernity and the Anthropocene
Jörn Ahrens
Climate Heroism and Eco-Pessimism: Reactions to Catastrophe in Three Environmental Thinkers
Carl Cassegård

Climate Activism: Imagining and Enacting the Future
Active Imaginaries: Young Italians’ Prefiguration of the Future after Climate Change as Critical Thought
Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini
Shifting Future Imaginaries and Evolving Protest in Climate Activism: An Algorithmically Assisted Visual Framing Analysis of Divergent (Self-)Representations
Johanna Raphaela Wahl
Exploring a Culture of Active Hope: Ex-GKN for Future as a Working-Class Response to Job Loss and the Ecological Crisis
Julia Kaiser and Johanna Fankel
Recursive Futures in the Crisis of the Present: Future Imaginaries and Prefigurative Politics within Forest Occupations in Germany
Alissa Starodub and Sebastian Garbe
Uncommon Threads of a Common Weave: A Comparative Analysis of German and Japanese Climate Activism
Solange Annaik Commelin

Shrinking Civic Spaces and Future Imaginaries from the Right
Delegitimising Dissent: Framing of Climate Protests and Civil Disobedience

Siri Hummel
“Counter-Apocalypse” and the Politics of Future: Climate, Democracy, and the Closure of Political Horizons

Philipp Rhein
The Ambivalent Future Ecological Imaginaries of the Far-Right: A Realist Perspective
Johannes Korak
Utopia – Dystopia – Retrotopia: Temporality and Visions of the Future and the Radical Right’s Climate Discourse
Fabian Virchow

Über Autor(innen)

Adloff, Frank
Frank Adloff is a Professor of Sociology in the Departement of Socioeconomics at the University of Hamburg, and the Director of the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies 'Futures of Sustainability.' His research interests include social theory, civil society, conviviality and theories of the gift, nature and society.

Poscharsky, Luis
Luis Poscharsky is a research assistant at the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies 'Futures of Sustainability'.

Jacobi, Philipp
Philipp Jacobi is a research assistant and a PhD student at the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies 'Futures of Sustainability.' He holds a B.A. in PPE and an M.A. in Political Theory. In his sociology PhD, he aims to analyze and critique the growth-driven society from a less anthropocentric perspective, based on an ethnography in northern Sweden.

Daniel, Antje
Antje Daniel is a researcher in the fields of political sociology, environment, youth, gender and future/utopia at the University of Vienna. She is leading the research project on 'Youth activism and Fridays for Future. An intersectional and global perspective' and a project on the EU Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (CSDDD) and its impact on civil society.

Hwang, Juneseo
Juneseo Hwang is an environmental sociologist who seeks to advance theories and practices of environmental peacebuilding and justice movements, direct action, and disarmament. He currently focuses on environmental peacebuilding on the island of Ireland, including the peace and security implications of the global criminalization of ecocide.

Antje Daniel is a researcher in the fields of political sociology, environment, youth, gender and future/utopia at the University of Vienna. She is leading the research project on 'Youth activism and Fridays for Future. An intersectional and global perspective' and a project on the EU Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (CSDDD) and its impact on civil society.
Frank Adloff is a Professor of Sociology in the Departement of Socioeconomics at the University of Hamburg, and the Director of the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies 'Futures of Sustainability.' His research interests include social theory, civil society, conviviality and theories of the gift, nature and society.
Juneseo Hwang is an environmental sociologist who seeks to advance theories and practices of environmental peacebuilding and justice movements, direct action, and disarmament. He currently focuses on environmental peacebuilding on the island of Ireland, including the peace and security implications of the global criminalization of ecocide.
Philipp Jacobi is a research assistant and a PhD student at the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies 'Futures of Sustainability.' He holds a B.A. in PPE and an M.A. in Political Theory. In his sociology PhD, he aims to analyze and critique the growth-driven society from a less anthropocentric perspective, based on an ethnography in northern Sweden.
Luis Poscharsky is a research assistant at the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies 'Futures of Sustainability'.