Over the past decade, climate politics and public discourse have increasingly shifted from narratives of progress and sustainable transition toward concerns with collapse, irreversibility, and loss. Experiences of despair, exhaustion, denial, or non-hope now coexist with continued forms of care, responsibility, and political engagement. The workshop asks how people remain present and responsive when certain futures can no longer be taken for granted. What forms of endurance, solidarity, and ethical commitment emerge under such conditions? 

The workshop also extends these questions beyond the climate context. Contributions addressing fields such as hospice and palliative care, disability, long-term illness, colonial devastation, or other forms of living with irreversible transformation are equally central. Bringing these domains into dialogue allows the workshop to approach finitude as a broader social and affective condition that cuts across diverse empirical settings while taking shape in historically uneven ways. 

Particular attention will be paid to the affective dimensions of endings: how grief, anger, fear, hope, exhaustion, or non-hope circulate within activist movements, care settings, religious communities, and everyday life. Organized around themes such as futures and responsibility, affective infrastructures, and care under conditions of finitude, the workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary conversations on how collective life is sustained in times marked by ecological crisis and profound social transformation. 

Language: English