Dear all,

*Call for Papers: What can the anthropology of climate change learn from
research into other forms of environmental change? *
P21 at the RAI Anthropology, Weather & Climate Change Conference, 27-29 May
2016

This panel explores how anthropological studies of environmental change not
caused by human alterations of global climate, such as forest cover or
water body changes, can theoretically and methodologically inform the
anthropology of climate change.

The study of climate change is an exciting and important new field in
environmental anthropology, but there is a longer tradition of
anthropological work on other forms of environmental change - for example
forest conversion, desertification, or soil degradation - that can
potentially offer it theoretical and methodological insights. This panel
invites papers discussing key themes in this literature, such as memory,
relations between global and local perceptions of change, the 'translation'
of indigenous into scientific knowledge, environmental crisis narratives,
disequilibrium ecology, uncertainty and variability and resilience and
adaptation, or more methodological challenges such as the problem of scale
and the use repeat photography. Together, we will seek to assess the ways
in which these different existing approaches, debates, methods and findings
may or may not be relevant for anthropological studies of climate change.
In so doing, we will also discuss whether there is anything distinctive
about the nature, scale and effects of man-made climate change and local
and global perceptions and reactions to it that sets it apart from other
processes of environmental change and therefore requires different forms
anthropological engagement.
If you would like to propose a paper for this panel, please submit an
abstract through the conference website here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3816. The
deadline for submissions is* January 8, 2016*.

Best wishes
William Wheeler (Goldsmiths)
Pauline von Hellermann (Goldsmiths)

-- 
William Wheeler
PhD candidate, Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of
London

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