Title: 2050 Anthropology of Climate Change: Praxis
Date: 11/23/2024 08:30 AM-10:00 AM, TCC 121
Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
Anthropologists engage in immersive fieldwork with local communities to explore the intricate web of nature-cultures and human-other-than-human relationships, focusing on the challenges that shape them. Speakers on this roundtable situate their research within the context of climate change, examining both its impacts and the responses it elicits, as well as the burgeoning climate
justice movements it inspires. Anthropologists work alongside communities on the frontlines of climate change. Through intimate
place-based research, we develop a deep understanding of the interplay between environmental shifts and human societies, paying attention to the intersectionality of culture, economies, risk, and vulnerabilities. This approach recognizes that climate change does not operate in isolation but intersects with other forms of inequality, such as racism and sexism. In response, anthropologists actively engage in decolonizing methodologies and knowledge production, challenging dominant narratives and power structures that perpetuate injustice. By centering Indigenous knowledge systems and amplifying marginalized voices, anthropology as a discipline can help facilitate more incl