Climate Change Chair — New Divides, New Forms of Mutualization
Supported by MACIF
Launched on November 26, 2024, the ENS–MACIF Research Chair “Climate Change: New Divides, New Forms of Mutualization” studies climate change and its consequences—social, economic, territorial, and political—as well as the new solutions to be developed to address them, by combining expertise in geosciences and social sciences. It is co-directed by Aglaé Jézéquel, a climatologist at the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (LMD), and Johanna Siméant-Germanos, a political scientist in the ENS Department of Social Sciences (Centre Maurice Halbwachs). The chair aims to improve our collective understanding of climate hazards and to identify the social and economic responses emerging in territories, with a particular focus on pathways for mutualization.
The work carried out within the Chair is structured around three main components:
- A first component focused on understanding climate hazards in France and how they are evolving in a changing climate. The two hazards studied within this chair are droughts and floods.
- The second component analyzes the social and political dimensions of climate hazards by approaching them as total social experiences that generate conflicts, reveal and exacerbate inequalities, but also foster solidarities and new forms of mutualization.
- A third component explores the imaginaries and representations of climate change, informed by interactions between science and the arts, in particular to address how scientific results are perceived and translated.
