Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit a paper to our panel "Weathering Time Itself:
Multiple Temporalities and the Human Scale of Climate Change" at the RAI's
2016 Anthropology, Weather, and Climate Change Conference at the British
Museum, London on May 27-29, 2016.
Our panel will explore how weather acts in everyday life by looking at
seasonal expectations, narratives of catastrophic events, and predictions
of uncertain futures. We hope to focus on the social and ecological
relationships through which people make sense of and manage potentially
dangerous weather. Central to these concerns is an attention to multiple
temporalities, including linear, cyclical, generational, and geologic
durations. We would like the papers in this panel to pay attention to
the temporal concerns that structure daily life as well as events ranging
from the mundane to the catastrophic.
Juxtaposed against the longitudinal abstraction of climate, weather is an
ethnographically achievable object, an everyday set of phenomena that
brings an analysis of climate change and its effects to the human scale of
experience. We invite participants whose work uses weather and the multiple
temporalities it engages to think productively about sociality and
environmental attachments.
If you are interested in participating in this panel, please submit an
abstract through the RAI's web platform here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3775.
Please forward this CFP widely and do get in touch with us (Heid:
[log in to unmask]; Dilshanie: [log in to unmask]) if you have any
questions. The deadline for submissions is January 8, 2016.
Best Regards,
Heid Jerstad, University of Edinburgh
Dilshanie Perera, Stanford University
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http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/our_students/research_student_profiles/social_anthropology/heid_jerstad
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