EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'
| Dates: | 8 May 2025 |
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| Times: | 17:30 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| How much: | Free |
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| 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
Sponsored by the EACW Environment and Ecologies Research Group
All welcome!
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.
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C1.18
Ellen Wilkinson Building
Manchester
