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Dienstag | 17.15 Uhr | The Politics of Ecological Emotions: Comparing Anxiety and Anger as Responses to the Climate Crisis in Britain (ONLINE ONLY) Medical Anthropology Forum Dr. Bridget Bradley, University of St Andrews (UK), In this seminar, Bridget Bradley shares work from her recent project on climate anxiety and activism, which was funded by the Scottish Funding Council and hosted at the University of St Andrews. This paper describes the psychological and emotional effects of climate-related work for activists in Britain. It critically analyses the language around ecological emotions, revealing the resistance and reluctance of our interlocutors to describe their experiences in terms of ‘anxiety’. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, this paper asks what are ecological emotions doing? What are the implications of different emotions for certain environmental activists and their families? With a focus on anxiety and anger, I consider the politics of ecological emotions in Britain, a cultural context where climate activism is often framed as being radical and hysterical, while simultaneously a threat to ‘tender minds’ whose mental wellbeing ought to be protected from the realities of the climate crisis. I argue that cultural stereotypes surrounding experiences of anxiety influence responses to the labelling of eco-anxiety, and reinforce attitudes towards these emotions that can both help and hinder environmental movements. Streaming / Video URL https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84323173302?pwd=TDExNE1tQWVhWVh5ZHMzR1JrQ3hLZz09 Homepage Veranstaltung https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup Veranstalter Südasien-Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie Homepage Veranstalter https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/ Kontakt Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - Sommersemester 2022': The forum as a public event was designed to be a space where senior students and researchers could gather with MAHASSA students and other interested parties to discover and discuss current themes in medical anthropology. Medical anthropology raises important intellectual and scientific questions about human suffering and wellbeing, and about the human body in its relation to culture and society. This is a “survey course,” meaning that we will survey the most important topics in this field, including illness and suffering, ethnomedicine, ritual healing, the anthropology of the body, mental health and culture, medical pluralism and hegemony, critical medical anthropology, science technology and medicine studies, and others. Dienstag, 24. Mai 2022, 17.15 Uhr The Politics of Ecological Emotions: Comparing Anxiety and Anger as Responses to the Climate Crisis in Britain (ONLINE ONLY) Dr. Bridget Bradley, University of St Andrews (UK),
Department of Social Anthropology Dienstag, 31. Mai 2022, 17.15 Uhr Eating for the Nation – The Biopolitics of Consumerism in Contemporary India Dr. Borayin Larios, University of Vienna (Austria),
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Dienstag, 07. Juni 2022, 17.15 Uhr Animal Bodies, Divine Presences and the Interpretation of Control in Contemporary Singapore Stuart Earle Strange, Department of Anthropology, Yale-NUS College (Singapore) Dienstag, 28. Juni 2022, 17.15 Uhr Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis in a Time of Covid: ‘The Expropriation of Health’ (ONLINE ONLY) Babette Babich, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York (USA) & Department of Philosophy, Religions and Liberal Arts, University of Winchester (UK) Dienstag, 19. Juli 2022, 17.15 Uhr Banking On Cord Blood: Decoding Amulets & Canisters in Chennai (ONLINE ONLY) Amishi Panwar, Health Care Research, Bristol Medical School,
University of Bristol (England) Dienstag, 02. August 2022, 17.15 Uhr The Coming Crisis: Antibiotic Resistance and the (Un-)Making of Efficacy: (ONLINE ONLY) Purbasha Mazumdar, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute, Geneva |