Past events
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Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction
15:00 - 17:00 25 November 2024
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we're not willing to do anything about it?" Starting from this provocation, this paper investigates psycho-cultural...
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Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology
15:00 - 17:00 2 December 2024
Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet anthropology’s contribution to debates on the topic has been surprisingly slow. This paper responds to urgent and timely discussions relating to the emotional and social responses to ecological breakdown, by examining the lived experiences of...
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Nikita Simpson (SOAS): How do we theorise ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
15:00 - 17:00 27 January 2025
The Gaddi tribal community, who inhabit the foothills of India’s Dhaula Dhar range, have experienced a rapid shift in livelihood over the last century from agro-pastoralism to waged labour, driven by urbanisation, land enclosure, ecological destruction, and climate change. This shift in livelihood has destabilised Gaddi dharam – or the moral...
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Kevin Donovan (Edinburgh): The CEO’s Two Bodies: Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Persona in Kenya
15:00 - 17:00 3 February 2025
In July 2019, the CEO of Kenya’s largest company, Safaricom, died. This talk uses the funeral of Robert Collymore as a jumping off point to consider the curious personalisation of the abstraction called a corporation. In his near-decade at the helm, Collymore transformed Safaricom into a behemoth; he also emerged as a charismatic leader with...
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Omer Aijazi (Manchester). Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
15:00 - 17:00 10 February 2025
Atmospheric Violence explores how people in the militarized, ecologically fragile borderlands of Kashmir attempt to flourish in an environment where violence is everywhere, or atmospheric. Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, where life has been shaped by recurring environmental...
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