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EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'

Dates:8 May 2025
Times:13:30 - 15:00
What is it:Lecture
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
How much:Free
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Adults, Current University students, General public, Post 16
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English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar:

Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'

Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building

1.30pm **Please note change from previously advertised time**

Sponsored by the EACW Environment and Ecologies Research Group

All welcome!

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Climate crisis images and narratives produced by the global north often shape the way environmental change is understood and managed. This talk will examine how apocalyptic 'climate memes' – which are familiar from dominant environmental media, eco-art and science communication – risk invisibilizing real ecological and social injustices and perpetuating colonizing and violent planetary responses. My focus, however, is alternative climate imaginaries emerging from global south, Indigenous-led and anti-colonial movements around the world. Through case studies in Chile, Greenland, the Pacific Islands and Canada, it considers key contemporary artists, activists and scholars whose creative interventions re-route colonial, extractive, and late capitalist thinking. Among them are the artistic and filmic collaborations, land defense projects, performances and installations of activist artists including Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Bill McKibben, Craig Santos Perez, and Rita Wong. Such work advocates for the role of collaborative, transdisciplinary, and grassroots action in reconfiguring ecological relations and enabling a shift away from technocratic solutions to culturally and contextually grounded practices.

Price: Free

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