Making the Petromasculine Dance - Why We Need an Intersectional Perspective on Sustainability Transition

On September 10, the panel discussion "Making the Petromasculine Dance - Why We Need an Intersectional Perspective on Sustainability Transition" will feature distinguished panelists Cara New Daggett and Kerstin Meissner from the Research Institute For Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS). The discussion will explore queering and intersectional perspectives on culture, power dynamics and (energy) transition within a sustainability framework. The discussion will be moderated by Bard College Berlin faculty member Berit Ebert, whose research focuses on the European Union with a specific lens on the intersection between gender equality, the rule-of-law, and democracy. Please register here.

Cara New Daggett is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech and a Senior Fellow at the Research Institute For Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS), Potsdam, Germany. She researches the politics of energy and the environment, feminist studies of science and technology, and histories of empire. Her research challenges the technocratic approach to energy transition and recognizes how energy upholds dominant cultures and structures of work and power. Her first award-winning book "The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work" has been translated into multiple languages. In addition to academic research, Daggett has also enjoyed public-facing writing, podcasting, and engagements with artists and architects around questions of transition - especially how human activities are valued.

Kerstin Meißner works as a scholar, cultural researcher, and social change facilitator and has been a Fellow at the Research Institute For Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) since June 2023. With a holistic understanding of social change processes that connect body, mind, and emotions, she researches, writes and teaches transdisciplinarily at the intersections of academia, art, culture and activism. In her dissertation "Relational Becoming. Social Belonging as a Process" (transcript, 2019), she explores the relational and dynamic nature of belonging through ficto-analytical writing. Trained as an educational scientist, she has spent the last few years researching and writing about how sounds and sounding provides access to our relational and entangled realities and could help create other futures. Her current research on sustainability and rave and club culture is published as a podcast series called "Shifting Basslines". All of her becoming-with-the-world is driven by the co-creation of resilient and environmentally just webs of human and more-than-human life. Her favorite spaces are forests, dance floors, and libraries.

In cooperation with Research Institute For Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS).

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Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156 Berlin)

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