Message posted on 10/06/2024
Online talk: Dr Camelia Dewan "Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh" 12 June
Dear Colleagues,
This is a kind reminder that you are very welcome to join us for our 8th
MoMO - Moving Mobilities Online talk this Wednesday 12 June. This series of
online talks are organized by AnthroMOB, the thematic network on
anthropology and mobility of EASA. You can see some of our previous talks
here: https://www.youtube.com/@anthromobeasa8502/videos
On *Wednesday 12th June*, *16.00* CEST (15.00 BST)
*Camelia Dewan* will give an online talk titled *Misreading Climate Change
in Bangladesh: From floods and food security to gendered migration*.
Please join us at: https://ub-edu.zoom.us/j/93777399354
Abstract
Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and
cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid
earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet to what extent do adaptation
projects address local needs and concerns? Combining environmental history
and ethnographic fieldwork with development professionals, rural farmers,
and landless women, Camelia Dewan critiques development narratives of
Bangladesh as a =E2=80=9Cclimate change victim=E2=80=9D. In this seminar, D=
r Dewan will
draw on the concept of =E2=80=98climate reductive translations=E2=80=99 to =
understand
current misreadings of floods, food security and migration in coastal
Bangladesh that create flawed causal narratives that ultimately risk
exacerbating climatic threats and structural inequalities.
*Dr. Camelia Dewan *is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the
anthropology of development and Assistant Professor in Cultural
Anthropology at Uppsala University (Sweden) examining the
socio-environmental effects of shipbreaking in Bangladesh. She holds a PhD
in Social Anthropology and Environment from the University of London
(SOAS/Birkbeck) and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Dept of
Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo (2018-23). Dr. Dewan is the
author of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and
Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh and co-editor of two special issues =E2=
=80=93
"Fluid Dispossessions: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures=E2=80=9D (Eth=
nos:
Journal of Anthropology) and "Scaled Ethnographies of Toxic Flows"
(Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space).
Looking forward to seeing you online,
Maarja Kaaristo
On behalf of
Team AnthroMOB
anthromob@outlook.com
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This is a kind reminder that you are very welcome to join us for our 8th
MoMO - Moving Mobilities Online talk this Wednesday 12 June. This series of
online talks are organized by AnthroMOB, the thematic network on
anthropology and mobility of EASA. You can see some of our previous talks
here: https://www.youtube.com/@anthromobeasa8502/videos
On *Wednesday 12th June*, *16.00* CEST (15.00 BST)
*Camelia Dewan* will give an online talk titled *Misreading Climate Change
in Bangladesh: From floods and food security to gendered migration*.
Please join us at: https://ub-edu.zoom.us/j/93777399354
Abstract
Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and
cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid
earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet to what extent do adaptation
projects address local needs and concerns? Combining environmental history
and ethnographic fieldwork with development professionals, rural farmers,
and landless women, Camelia Dewan critiques development narratives of
Bangladesh as a =E2=80=9Cclimate change victim=E2=80=9D. In this seminar, D=
r Dewan will
draw on the concept of =E2=80=98climate reductive translations=E2=80=99 to =
understand
current misreadings of floods, food security and migration in coastal
Bangladesh that create flawed causal narratives that ultimately risk
exacerbating climatic threats and structural inequalities.
*Dr. Camelia Dewan *is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the
anthropology of development and Assistant Professor in Cultural
Anthropology at Uppsala University (Sweden) examining the
socio-environmental effects of shipbreaking in Bangladesh. She holds a PhD
in Social Anthropology and Environment from the University of London
(SOAS/Birkbeck) and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Dept of
Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo (2018-23). Dr. Dewan is the
author of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and
Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh and co-editor of two special issues =E2=
=80=93
"Fluid Dispossessions: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures=E2=80=9D (Eth=
nos:
Journal of Anthropology) and "Scaled Ethnographies of Toxic Flows"
(Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space).
Looking forward to seeing you online,
Maarja Kaaristo
On behalf of
Team AnthroMOB
anthromob@outlook.com
