37. Climate Data Relations

Samara Hayley Steele, University of California at Davis

Posted: January 27, 2021

In these times of shifting climate relations, we find technoscience regimes bound up in assemblages of data produced with predictive models; data that shape the agendas of international political convenings; data about topics as disparate as temperature, displacement, and armed conflict; data that deal in narratives about the future while vying to mediate relations in the present. How do we responsibly make sense of predictive climate models, their data, their code, and their attendant relations of power? How might we responsibly unpack these data and models while intervening in processes through which they uphold and reproduce systemic forms of oppression? Dare we envision better or even good climate data relations? This panel welcomes papers at the intersection of environmental humanities, critical data studies, critical code studies, Indigenous STS, feminist STS, migration studies, and critical race studies.



Published: 01/01/2021