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SUMMARY:The Burning Issue: Hazy Relations and the Construction of Knowledg
 e in the Land Management Fires of Southeast Asia - gloknos seminar - Julia
  L Cassaniti (Washington State University)
DTSTART:20190620T140000Z
DTEND:20190620T160000Z
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to join us for this event in the ‘cum panis
 ’ seminar series\, hosted by gloknos at CRASSH . The ‘cum panis’ sem
 inars are a space to share work currently in progress and break bread (or 
 cake!) with new intellectual companions.\n\nIn this session we are joined 
 by Dr Julia Cassaniti (Washington State University). Julia L Cassaniti is 
 an Associate Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at Washin
 gton State University\, and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Social
  Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.\n\nAbstract:\nAir pollution 
 during the hot season is an increasingly recognised health crisis across S
 outheast Asia\, with the air quality index (AQI) of Chiang Mai in March 20
 19 almost four times higher than the recommended 100 AQI safety standard\,
  and those neighbouring countries not far behind. Yet as people demand act
 ion from their governments\, the causes and solutions to the burning are o
 ften hazy and unclear. While city and countryside residents walk around No
 rthern Thailand with air masks on\, squinting to see in front of them\, ma
 ny point up to the hills\, where Karen\, Hmong\, and other upland minority
  communities burn crops each year to make way for a new cycle of planting.
  Yet while the imagined worlds of upland communities are central to the na
 tional rhetoric on air pollution in the country\, the cosmological imagina
 tion of lowland communities regarding themselves and their relations to th
 ese communities is of equal if not more importance. This talk will use eth
 nographic evidence to cover some of the central explanations for the air p
 ollution problems\, from upland burning to the rise in agrobusiness\, usin
 g it as a case study to better understand the creation of perceptions abou
 t causation and responsibility. By re-centering discussion on the differen
 t ways that causes are represented\, and the knowledge of selves and other
 s are imagined\, this talk will shed light on some of the cosmo-political 
 epistemologies at play in a burning global issue. \n\nPlease email sjp229@
 cam.ac.uk to confirm your space for this seminar.
LOCATION:CRASSH Meeting Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cam
 bridge\, CB3 9DT
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