Interdisciplinarity for Stable Future of Our Planet
Bartłomiej Knosala1 ✉️ 1Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Cite as: Knosala, B. (2025, May). Interdisciplinarity for Stable Future of Our Planet. In SCS 2025, 2nd International Conference on Social Contexts of Science (p. 52). Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland.
Abstract
The aim of the talk is to discuss the problem of interdisciplinarity in times of climate destabilisation. Starting from the notion of climate marasm, i.e. the inability to take international wide-ranging and effective action to stabilise planetary systems, we reflect on the adoption of necessary adjustments to the current scientific culture. At the same time, we make a case for the inclusion of disciplines belonging to the broader humanities in a strategy to combat climate change. The theoretical basis for our considerations is the concept of Bruno Latour, according to which the division between pure social force and pure natural mechanisms is the result of the so-called Constitution of Modernity. According to Latour, maintaining this division hinders or even prevents effective actions to stabilize planetary systems. According to Latour, global warming is a quasi-object – a tangle of various elements that constitute our world. Since these elements are both natural and social, understanding the current situation and defining strategies necessitates the invention of collective dispositives, i.e., organizing teamwork that encompasses quite different disciplines, which do not use the same means of expression but address the same issues.
Keywords
Interdisciplinarity, Anthropocene, Humanities, Ecology and religion
Current status of the research is: Work-in-progress
Potential collaboration with Authors
I am looking for collaborators interessted in developing multidisciplinar approach to climate change. I can offer developer approach from perspective of ecology and religion paradigm.