Environmental Humanities and Subaltern Futures in the Wake of Climate Change I
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Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM Mountain Time
Room: Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Abdul Aijaz Indiana University Bloomington
Chair(s):
Description:
Scholars in the social sciences and humanities (Nixon 2011; Moore 2015; Haraway 2016; Ghosh 2016) have argued that the material crises of climate change reveal the narrative crises of the stories that we tell of the world—a fact that is often marginalized in the policy debates over climate change and natural resource management. Human progress has been narrated as the story of control over Nature. Ever since the Enlightenment, Anna Tsing argues, “Nature was a backdrop and resource for the moral intentionality of Man, which could tame and master Nature” (2015, vii). Climate change complicates these older stories of the world by collapsing the nature-culture divide, and revealing that nature is not just a passive backdrop for human stories of progress, but a significant actor shaping entangled human and ecological histories (Chakrabarty 2009). More than ever before, the ontological flows of ecological processes are entangled with cultural forms and narratives.
The session invites papers at the intersections of literary geographies, political and cultural ecology, and the geography of human-environment interactions.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Abdul Aijaz |
Politics and Poetics of Survival: Environmental Crisis and Hydrosocial Assemblage in Pakistan |
Elisa Rudolph |
Life, Land, and Anticipated Loss: An Arendtian Lens to Climate-Related Voluntary Immobility |
Nafisa Sarwath |
A case of sustaining connection to land: Cree Nation of Wemindji |
Tenzin Yangkey |
Gyalsa Nomad: A Story of Contemporary Herding from Outskirts of Leh city, India |
Non-Presenting Participants
| Role | Participant |
| Panelist | Abdul Aijaz |
| Panelist | Elisa Rudolph University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Environmental Humanities and Subaltern Futures in the Wake of Climate Change I
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM MT
Room: Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Abdul Aijaz Indiana University Bloomington
aaijaz@iu.edu
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