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Muddy Waters: Reimagining Futures in Wet Asia
Today, anthropogenic climate change — cyclones, floods, and storm surges permeate and punctuate the regularity of everyday life in much of South and Southeast Asia. The catastrophic harms that are visited by these events are neither linear nor are they evenly distributed, but are a result of historic projects to manage, tame and regulate waters with the land-centric imaginaries of colonial and postcolonial states. Rather than approach questions of design and history with dry ground at the center, the panelists in this session think about the kinds of futures and histories that might be made thinking in and from the waterscapes (oceans, rivers and littoral regions) in which they have long worked.
Panelists:
Prasenjit Duara - Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies, Duke University
Maira Hayat - Assistant Professor of Environment and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Marvi Mazhar - Architect and researcher
Moderator:
Nikhil Anand - Daniel Braun Silvers and Robert Peter Silvers Family Presidential Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Cosponsored by Penn's EnviroLab and Environmental Innovations Initiative
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Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2065350-0
