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SUMMARY:World-making / -breaking: Towards a Political Ontology of Rhythm -
  Carolyn Smith (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Tom Fry
DESCRIPTION:Despite huge advances in science and technology\, the UNDRR ac
 knowledged in 2022 that current approaches to disaster risk are failing.  
 This talk examines why.  Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on the border b
 etween Chile and Argentina\, the research centres on Copahue volcano and t
 he transhumant Mapuche communities who live-with persistent volcanism in t
 he context of complex colonial legacies\, extreme inequalities of power an
 d increasing environmental risk.  Governance of this frontier space betwee
 n nations\, knowledges and worlds has always been negotiated.  In this tal
 k\, I argue that an attempted evacuation of the area in 2013 brought longs
 tanding frictions to light and examine how the risk imaginary has emerged 
 as a key logic to justify state intervention.  I suggest that an attention
  to rhythm offers a lens to not only understand the complexity of the Mapu
 che lifeworld in a way that makes sense to them\, but the limitations of t
 he risk paradigm and the violence that occurs when worlds are dismantled i
 n its image.  This talk addresses critical questions concerning pluriversa
 l politics and the conflict of interest (between maintaining the status qu
 o and addressing risk) that causes Disaster Risk Reduction to undermine it
 s own agenda.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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