2022
20.04.2022, Christopher Kelty (UCLA): Fixing the Future in Los Angeles or, Why Johnny Can't Problematize
This talk
reports some absurdities of environmental governance in a particular place: Los
Angeles, California. It focuses on three urban ecological and wildlife
controversies: the environmental impact of feral cats cared for by humans, the
secondary effects of anticoagulant rodenticides on predatory and scavenging
birds and mammals; and the restoration of a wetlands sacred to local Native
American peoples, degraded by both oil drilling and conservation. Central to
all of them are techno-political tools: environmental impact reports,
mitigation bank and credits systems, pesticide registration review. Each of
these tools fix the future by defining the present and testing the impacts of
different futures--evidence-based policy making. Yet as a pragmatic form, they
do much more: they slow down the future in some ways, and speed it up in
others; they instantiate certain pasts over others, and they become intense
affective fields around which the possibility of argument unfolds. I argue that
this does not always happen along predictable lines, serving as a bulwark
against a damaging future in some cases and a roadblock to a desired change in
others.
2022
Fixing Futures
20 April : Christopher Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles)
Fixing the Future in Los Angeles or, Why Johnny Can't Problematize
11 May: Andrew Barry, Evelina Gambino (University College London)
The Labour of Capitalism
22 June: Andrea Ballestero (University of Southern California)
Aquifers and Ethnography at the Edge of a Concept
13 July: Lucy Suchman (Lancaster Unicersity)
Demilitarisation, open worlds, and reparative futures
Mittwoch, 18:00 - 20:00 (MEZ)
Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, SH 2.105 und online!
Bitte unter ka-hiwis@em.uni-frankfurt.de anmelden
2021
2021
Dates:
More information to come soon.
2021
Die Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Martina Klausner "A More-Than-Digital Anthropology" findet am 28. April 2021 statt. Über die Möglichkeiten der Teilnahme (in Präsenz und virtuell) informieren wir zeitnah.