Joseph Browning

Joe Browning is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and St Hilda's College, Oxford. His work examines the cultural practices that are emerging in response to the climate crisis, as well as raising questions about the role and responsibilities of music studies in a time of ecological breakdown. His current research project is an ethnographic study of the British contemporary music scene, exploring how ideas about musical organicism and vitalism – which imagine music as patterned or animated like the natural world – relate to debates around environmentalism, biopolitics and the role of contemporary music in today’s society.

Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences