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SUMMARY:Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and gle
 e of climate inaction
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DESCRIPTION:In a recent statement\, Scientists Rebellion\, the internatio
 nal organization of environmental activists with a scientific background
 \, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting in ever greater 
 detail the catastrophe we face\, if we're not willing to do anything abo
 ut it?" Starting from this provocation\, this paper investigates psycho-
 cultural barriers to collective action on climate change by juxtaposing 
 ethnographic research conducted within youth climate movements and organ
 izations across Europe with the broader anthropological corpus on lay ci
 tizens and sustainability experts' complicity with the continuation of t
 he climate predicament.\n\nThrough this lens\, the paper illuminates how
  inaction requires subtle but agentive forms of emotional and imaginativ
 e foreclosure that normalise collective inadequacy and incuriosity for w
 hat ‘change’ means in climate change. It also brings into view yet-to-be
 -theorized layers of the affective complexion—such as raw feelings of ho
 rror and glee—regularly suppressed yet fundamentally underscoring the po
 wer of disavowal\, neglect\, and anxiety in the unfolding of runaway cli
 mate change. In so doing\, the intervention borrows from the vocabulary 
 of Western political ontology and psychoanalysis to theorise an affectiv
 e posture—an "enclosing" or "corralling" attitude—aimed at priming subje
 cts so that they could gain emotionally from engaging with the most disq
 uieting implications of climate subversions while deferring indefinitely
  the phenomenologically grounded consensus required to rise up to them. 
 
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Hanson Room\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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