From heat justice to disenchanted modernities
A new podcast episode, a talk on 'mega-projects' and some exciting events to look forward to in the UK, USA, Europe and online.
Urban heat justice
In a new episode of the Future Natures podcast, Anoushka talks to Panagiota Kotsila about urban futures, climate related suffering and heat injustice - including the experiences of immigrants to European cities like Barcelona.
Thinking about heat justice - and its links to many other areas of difference and inequality - could point the way towards creating more ‘emancipatory’ cities, meeting the diverse needs of people who live there, with the knowledges of migrants playing a central role.
How ‘mega-infrastructure projects’ lead to disenchantment
Mega-Infrastructure Projects (MIPs) represent a central element of globalized development. MIPs like the Chinese driven ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI), or large-scale wind, solar and biofuel networks, are often presented as sustainable or ‘green’. However, they can result in broken promises, disenchantment and dispossession.
In a seminar at IDS on 18 September, Tobias Haller introduced the new book ‘Disenchanted Modernities’ and discussed some cases that also reveal local people’s responses. The audio recording is available to listen on our website.
Forthcoming events
TALKS BY AMBER HUFF
Amber Huff will give two talks in San Fransisco, California in a Visiting Scholar series hosted by the Department of Anthropology & Social Change at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
30 September
Weird Ecologies - talk by Amber Huff
CIIS Lobby, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco CA
6-7.30pm (Pacific Daylight Time) and online
1 October
Commons, Enclosure and Value Struggle
CIIS Lobby, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco CA
6-7.30pm (Pacific Daylight Time) and online
Details and links to the YouTube streams for both events
‘NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY’ LAUNCH EVENTS
3 October
Launch of the book by Ian Scoones, ‘Navigating Uncertainty’
(IDS, Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, UK - and online).
The in-person event also includes a drinks reception and viewing of the exhibition ‘Uncertain Worlds’.
Details/registration (IDS website)
7-18 October
A series of talks to launch the book ‘Navigating Uncertainty’ at venues in Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France.
Details & joining instructions
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