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SUMMARY:Infrastructural Fear: or When Climate Change Isn’t an Allegory -
  Stephen Lezak\, PhD candidate\, Scott Polar Research Institute\, Universi
 ty of Cambridge\, Gates scholar
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CONTACT:Emilie Canova
DESCRIPTION:Social scientists readily look for the ways in which climate c
 hange serves as an allegory or a prism through which people understand con
 temporary and future politics of life on Earth. In two imminently-threaten
 ed Indigenous communities in Western Alaska\, climate change rarely receiv
 es such treatment. Fear of climate change is infrastructural\, not existen
 tial. These rural and Indigenous vantages onto the Anthropocene challenge 
 the tendency to extract meaning from environmental change. At the same tim
 e\, they contrast with other Indigenous viewpoints\, such as those that at
 tribute climatic change to sociocultural change. In this talk\, I explore 
 what it looks like when climate change is not about anything other than it
 self\, and the ensuing politics of pragmatism that characterise two Indige
 nous communities' subsequent responses.
LOCATION:Hybrid: Seminar room\, SPRI &amp\; Zoom - email organiser for det
 ails
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