Dear All,
EASA Environment and Anthropology Network invites paper proposals to our
panel "*Privileged fear: Europe and the concern for environmental
catastrophes*" at the16th EASA conference "New anthropological horizons
in and beyond Europe" in *Lisbon, Portugal, 21-24 July 2020*.
The panel convenors are *Aet Annist* (University of Tartu, EE) and *Nina
Moeller* (Coventry University, UK), with *Thomas Hylland Eriksen*
(University of Oslo, NO) as the discussant.
Please use the link
https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/panels#8636
<https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/panels#8636> to access
the submission page.
_Short abstract_:
We will consider how Europe as a region relatively sheltered from
climate and environmental disasters deals with the increasing awareness
of the potential of future crises: how do the privileged fear? What
relations does this fear forge between groups within the region and with
the rest of the world?
_Long abstract_:
Globally, climate change has already brought severe changes to some
regions, as floods, droughts, ravaging fires, or hurricanes. Europe has
so far remained a relatively sheltered region due to both climatic
conditions as well as ability to respond to disasters. This panel seeks
to analyse the gaze and actions of the privileged as they find
themselves on the inside of their safe havens, looking out at the
approaching danger. How does Europe - its people, political
institutions, economic stakeholders - respond to clashing experiences of
contained catastrophes and the strengthening conviction of future
turmoil? We welcome empirically informed and/or theoretical discussions
of the fears, hopes and responses in Europe in the face of increasing
awareness of the environmental crises. From climate marches and
eco-villages to innovative solutions, from survivalists and grieving
groups to deniers, global North is in a very different position than the
rest of the world when confronting danger as well as solutions. How does
privilege impact affect? What do we fear differently? What views of
others form when the border that separates "us" from "them" comes from
relative climate safety and environmental dispossession? But also - what
strata form in relation to having stakes in the future? Who is already
affected within this relatively secure part of the world - from migrants
to the poor and young people - and how? How can different groups afford
to be afraid? What relations does this shelteredness and concomitant
privileged fear forge between Europe and the world already affected?
In anticipation, Aet and Nina
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