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Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology

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Dates:2 December 2024
Times:15:00 - 17:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Current University students
Speaker:Bridget Bradley
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Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet anthropology’s contribution to debates on the topic has been surprisingly slow. This paper responds to urgent and timely discussions relating to the emotional and social responses to ecological breakdown, by examining the lived experiences of eco-anxiety for people and their families living in Britain. Based on a digital, patchwork ethnography conducted during the Covid-19 lockdown, this research contributes to scholarship on affective activism within anthropology and feminist theory. Through ethnographic and autoethnographic reflections I introduce the idea of a "militant sentient anthropology" to show how research and teaching with eco-anxiety reveals the urgency of anthropological theories, methodologies and pedagogies that centre wellbeing and social justice in times of crisis.

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Bridget Bradley

Organisation: University of St Andrews

  • https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/bb203

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