Ethnographies of geoengineering have recently looked at discourse (Bellamy and Lezaun 2015, Whyte 2019, Paudel 2024), public perception (Merk 2019, Raimi 2021, Baum 2024), and relations of geoengineering with various ontologies (Hulme 2015, Bellamy and Palmer 2018, Bulk 2019), but rarely at practice and the role of experiment (Stillgoe 2015) in a field of science that is deeply critiqued for its relationship with experimenting. How can ethnographers of geoengineering fill this gap? Because ethnography is often co-created with our interlocutors, the panel seeks to explore two sister questions: First, how do scientists involved in geoengineering think with experiment? Second, how must ethnographers experiment with their own practice in order to properly capture the everyday lives of geoengineering? The Call for Panels closes Jan 15, 2026, so please send your proposal (paper title, 150-word abstracts, name, contact, and affiliation) to alexandra.cotofana@gmail.com by Jan 10, 2026.
