Dear Colleagues,
We still have a couple of free spots on a panel for this year's CASCA/AAA
meeting in Vancouver (November 20-24). Please see the panel abstract below.
If you would like to discuss the dynamics of 'social-ecological
disintegration' with us, please send your paper title and abstract to
[log in to unmask] before April 2nd - i.e. a couple of days before the
conference deadline. Thank you.
We're looking forward to hearing from you.
Franz Krause with Michael Bollig and Clemens Greiner
*When Things Fall Apart: Navigating Socio-ecological Disintegration*
As taken-for-granted realities like kinship structures, traditional
livelihoods, and familiar ecologies crumble in the context of changing
climates, how do people navigate and mitigate the impacts of their
increasingly disordered worlds?
Things fall apart, as humans inhabit an increasingly volatile ‘damaged
planet’ (Tsing), where uncertain transformations occur at accelerated rates
and with amplified consequences. The combination of economic restructuring,
shifting identity politics, and changing climates are remaking and undoing
anthropocenic landscapes in ways that render them unstable, useless,
illegible, and unfamiliar to their inhabitants.
Things fall apart, not as objects destroyed by external forces, but through
accelerating transformations of their constituent social and material
relations. Far from being controlled by the socioeconomic processes that
trigger climatic and other changes, anthropocenic landscapes are
characterised by disconcerting processes of de/coupling, substantially
shaped by the powers and propensities of animals, plants, and inorganic
matter.
This panel explores the developments of increasing disorder characteristic
of concurrent processes of socio-cultural and environmental upheaval,
including in the melting Arctic, unstable African savannahs, and denuded
Asian rainforests. It establishes a comparative conversation between
ethnographic analyses of socio-ecological disintegration, where former
social, cultural, and material certainties are vanishing. We pay particular
attention to people’s situated experiences of encroaching chaos, as well as
their struggles to establish new orders while redistributing the burdens
and benefits of life in the context of changing climates.
Deadline: All individual paper abstracts must be uploaded by April 04, 2019
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