{"id":10021,"date":"2023-09-13T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/?post_type=mec-events&p=10021"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:50:19","slug":"2023-annual-john-urry-memorial-lecture-dr-alice-mah","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/events\/2023-annual-john-urry-memorial-lecture-dr-alice-mah\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Annual John Urry Memorial Lecture: Prof. Alice Mah"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Towards Alternative Socio-Ecological Futures<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Professor Alice Mah\u00a0is Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation<\/em> (2023), Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age\u00a0<\/i>(with Thom Davies, 2020), Port Cities and Global Legacies<\/i>\u00a0(2014) and Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place\u00a0<\/i>(2012).\u00a0Her research has been awarded the Leverhulme Prize in Sociology, the SAGE Prize for Innovation and\/or Excellence, and the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.<\/p>\n

In her talk ‘Towards Alternative Socio-Ecological Futures<\/strong>‘, Professor Alice Mah will be sharing her recent research:<\/p>\n

In the context of ecological crisis, this lecture argues that social scientific research on alternative socio-ecological futures is important for addressing conflicts over the stakes of green transformations, particularly for moving beyond critique towards critical intervention. First, reflecting on findings from an in-depth, multi-sited sociological study of the global petrochemical industry, it examines a range of interdisciplinary debates that relate to alternative socio-ecological futures, including ideas of\u00a0degrowth, just transition, socio-ecological systems,\u00a0and anti-colonial and post-capitalist futures. Next, building on these, the lecture outlines new possible methodologies for researching alternatives and futures, which include considerations of deep time, qualitative complexity analysis, and intergenerational and multi-species justice. Taking these factors into account is crucial for ethical, socio-ecological thinking across long time scales, countering short-term business-as-usual assumptions about perpetual growth and expendability. This calls for socio-ecological alternatives that are based on values of equality, justice, and reciprocity, but that also recognize the need to battle systemic social inequalities.<\/p>\n

If you are not already attending the CeMoRe T2M Conference Hub, please register for a ticket to the John Urry Memorial Lecture<\/a> (in-person event).<\/p>\n

This event will be held in-person at Lancaster University in\u00a0Management School Lecture Theatre 04<\/strong>, there will be refreshments available beforehand at 4.30pm.<\/p>\n

It will also be live streamed as part of T2Ms 2023 conference. If you are not registered for T2Ms livestream, the lecture will be recorded and be available to watch at a later date on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Towards Alternative Socio-Ecological Futures Professor Alice Mah\u00a0is Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (2023), Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age\u00a0(with Thom Davies, 2020), Port Cities and Global Legacies\u00a0(2014) and Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place\u00a0(2012).\u00a0Her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":10022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[971],"class_list":["post-10021","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-annual-john-urry-lecture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}