ABSTRACT
In this chapter, "Nature, Climate Change and the Culture of Social Sciences", Reiner Grundmann, Markus Rhomberg and Nico Stehr focus on the historic invisibility of social scientists in debates concerning climate change. The authors address the fundamental challenge and ambivalence of social scientists in having to learn to address climate change. The social sciences face major challenges in coping with climate change as they strive to avoid ecological determinism, and at the same time support their disciplinary founding within social constructivism. After addressing how different social scientists have recently responded to climate change, Brenholdt focuses on change in practice and takes the case of multi-sited living seriously. Based on multi-sited living he argues that we may be able to discover the contours of a new and untraditional way of dealing with climate change a way that connects mobility and sustainability studies.
