FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Planning seminar – Tracy Trägårdh

Title

Wet Imaginaries – Organising Socio-Ecological Just Futures with(in) Öresund

Discussant

Sissi Ingman, Universitetslektor, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University

Project Description

This doctoral research explores how marine organisations in the Öresund region engage in speculative practices to imagine and enact socio-ecologically just futures. Using a qualitative case study approach, it combines ethnography and storytelling to examine how organisational activities—such as policy development, marine pedagogy, and urban planning, etc—make Öresund’s unseen life seen and create new understandings. To interpret these practices, the study introduces the speculative concept Oceanopolis, drawing on feminist science and technology studies and political theory to imagine alternative ways of organising with the Sea. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s notion of storytelling as political action and Donna Haraway’s speculative fabulation, this inquiry considers organisational practices as wording, understood as material and semiotic acts that shape possible futures. Through this lens, marine organisations emerge as sites of experimentation for imagining socio-ecologically just ways of organising within(in) Öresund.