As part of the RAI/ British Museum conference 'Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change' (27-29 May 2016) we invite paper proposals for Panel 10:

"Long-term community approaches to health and environmental change in sub-Saharan Africa"

Convenors: Henrietta L Moore, Matthew Davies, Petros Andreadis, Constance Smith (UCL)
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3794

Abstract
Over the coming decades, sub-Saharan Africa will confront climate-related challenges that are predicted to have significant implications for health and wellbeing. However, the context specific nature of these challenges remain unclear. Communities in sub-Saharan Africa are not ignorant of ecological change, nor are they passive in shaping, interpreting and responding to the challenges and opportunities that might arise. These responses are inextricably linked to changing realities of health, illness and healing, and are historically and culturally situated, emerging from webs of interaction and interpretation embedded in past ways of knowing and doing.

Scholarship on linkages between health and environment in Africa is growing, including explorations of local pharmacopoeias, water and waste management, and non-cultivated foods. However little of this work has engaged with how practices and knowledges are actively reformulated in relation to experiences of climatic change. We invite papers from the social sciences, humanities, and health-related disciplines that explore community strategies for understanding and managing health, nutrition and healing in contexts of environmental uncertainty in sub- Saharan Africa. Submissions might address:

- How do longstanding local knowledges help communities understand health and wellbeing in relation to climatic / ecological change?

- How do communities negotiate the relationship between climatic uncertainty, diet and nutrition?

- How do local interpretations of the relationship between environment and health align (or not) with those of other key actors (e.g. NGOs, policy makers)?

- How are notions of the environment-health nexus constructed and how do these understandings flex intergenerationally, and in response to changing demographics?

To propose a paper please follow the link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3794



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Constance Smith
PhD candidate

Dept of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton St
London
WC1H 0BW


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