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SUMMARY:Nikita Simpson (SOAS): How do we theorise ecological distress? A 
 view from the Western Himalayas
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DESCRIPTION:The Gaddi tribal community\, who inhabit the foothills of Ind
 ia’s Dhaula Dhar range\, have experienced a rapid shift in livelihood ov
 er the last century from agro-pastoralism to waged labour\, driven by ur
 banisation\, land enclosure\, ecological destruction\, and climate chang
 e. This shift in livelihood has destabilised Gaddi dharam – or the moral
  way of life – overturning hierarchies of social status within the tribe
 -caste-class nexus and rupturing generational expectations of masculinit
 y. Many men experience this instability as embodied and psychic distress
  that\, in some instances\, tips over into ‘madness’ (pagalpan). This pa
 per considers the extent to which this ethnographic instance of distress
  might speak to and trouble the growing paradigm of studies on ‘eco-anxi
 ety’\, revealing persistent and problematic assumptions about the way in
  which distinctions of ‘mind’ and body’\; ‘inside’ and ‘outside’\; ‘natu
 re’ and ‘culture’ figure in expressions of ecological distress\, particu
 larly for indigenous groups. Instead of reproducing these assumptions\, 
 it delves into the biomoral world of the Gaddi people and investigates t
 he stymied vitalities that might generate distress for Gaddi men.
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LOCATION:Room 5.205\, University Place\, Manchester
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