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As the impact of climate change intensifies, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Indian Ocean region, with its fast-accelerating economies, its innumerable oil and gas producers, its collapsing ecosystems, its vulnerable yet rapidly-increasing populations, and its swiftly-expanding carbon footprint, will be the theatre in which the future of the world will be decided. How will the ongoing changes affect the material and cultural lives of the region’s peoples, who are simultaneously drivers and victims of climate change? Many of the world’s major zones of conflict are already clustered around the Indian Ocean, and the region is also the theater of many accelerating arms races. How will these developments affect the global balance of power? What lessons might past climatic shifts offer for the future? These are some of the issues that will be discussed over the four two-hour sessions of this workshop.
November 13: The Arts of Living in a Precarious Age
With guest speaker: Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins)
- Anand Pandian, Introduction to A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, Duke UP, 2019.
- Nils Bubandt, “Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene,” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, eds. Anne Tsing, et.al. University of Minnesota Press, 2017
- Wu Ming-Yi, excerpts from the novel, The Man with the Compound Eyes, Taiwan: Summer Festival Press, 2011.
- Jason Decaires Taylor, underwater art installations
