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Summary Economy and Ecology: Green Futures (7312E0054Y)
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Summary Economy and Ecology: GreenFutures
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HC.1 Green Futures – New areas of anthropological engagement (12.02.21) ................................................ 6
Break-out room questions: ................................................................................................................................. 7
What are Green Futures? ................................................................................................................................... 8
Example green initiative (min 1:04:01) ............................................................................................................. 9
What is the relation of Green Futures with Development? ................................................................................ 9
70 years of development paradigms ................................................................................................................... 9
Green futures: Scenario’s and solutions in climate change literature ............................................................. 10
How do we study Green Futures as Anthropologists? ..................................................................................... 11
HC. 2 Green Futures – New areas of anthropological engagement (05.01.21) .............................................. 11
History and development of environmental anthropology .............................................................................. 11
Contemporary environmental anthropology .................................................................................................... 12
Assemblage thinking ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Anthropology of the future ............................................................................................................................... 13
Casus: Seasonality on Madura (min 1:12:20) ................................................................................................. 14
Break-out room questions ................................................................................................................................ 14
Possible research themes ................................................................................................................................. 15
1. Affective relationships of environmental change .................................................................................... 16
2. Social-cultural and economic impact of climate change in the global South .......................................... 16
3. The critical study of ‘green future thinking’ ............................................................................................ 17
4. Collective action and mass mobilization – new social movements ......................................................... 17
The black hole of mainstreaming solutions for climate change: Resilience and Adaptation ........................... 17
HC. 3 Climate change, resilience and adaptation (09.01.21) .......................................................................... 18
Goals: The purpose of this week’s lecture ........................................................................................................ 18
Setup of the lecture ........................................................................................................................................... 18
Climate change facts, impacts and introduction of key terms .......................................................................... 18
Resilience ......................................................................................................................................................... 18
Resilience in anthropology ............................................................................................................................... 19
Resilience thinking & climate change .............................................................................................................. 19
Elements of Resilience (Bahadur et al. 2013) .................................................................................................. 20
Example of a mixed farming system (resilience through diversity) .................................................................. 21
Mitigation ......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Adaptation ........................................................................................................................................................ 21
Adaptation in literature .................................................................................................................................... 22
Adaptation: Semantic network based on Burnham and Za (2016) .................................................................. 22
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, Adaptation: Conceptual (un)clarity ................................................................................................................. 22
Local knowledge learning cycle ....................................................................................................................... 23
Anthropological perspectives ........................................................................................................................... 23
What do smallholders do? (Burnham & Ma 2016) .......................................................................................... 23
Policy implications (Scoville-Simonds et al. 2019) .......................................................................................... 24
Casus Changing Water: Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Environment (min 47) ............................. 24
How do people interpreted and adapt to these aquatic-ecological changes? .................................................. 24
Environmental change in Kalimantan .............................................................................................................. 25
How do people interpret and adapt to these aquatic-ecological changes? ...................................................... 25
Findings of the research ................................................................................................................................... 26
Break-out question ........................................................................................................................................... 26
GC. 4 Ecological Anthropology, the Anthropocene, and the study of Pastoralism Nigeria - Adam Higazi
(12.02.21) .............................................................................................................................................................. 27
Anthropology and Climate change quote Erikson ........................................................................................... 27
What can we say as Anthropologist? ................................................................................................................ 28
Antropologie and the Anthropocene ................................................................................................................. 28
Divining the Anthropocene ............................................................................................................................... 29
Timeline ............................................................................................................................................................ 29
Ecological Anthropology ................................................................................................................................. 29
Pastoralism and Ecology in West Africa ......................................................................................................... 30
Facts about Nigeria .......................................................................................................................................... 30
Pastoral groups are decentralized: clans and family ....................................................................................... 31
Livestock ownership ......................................................................................................................................... 31
Environmental change...................................................................................................................................... 32
The pastoral Economy in Nigeria..................................................................................................................... 32
Biodiversity and Anthropology: Ethno-botanical & ethno-ecological research .............................................. 33
HC. 5 Recourse conflicts, ecological justice and climate change (16.02.21) ................................................... 33
This week: ......................................................................................................................................................... 33
Literature.......................................................................................................................................................... 33
Access to natural recourses .............................................................................................................................. 33
Drive for land because ..................................................................................................................................... 34
Multiple actors and interest ............................................................................................................................ 35
Sikkor and Lund (2009) min 1:05 getranscribeerd .......................................................................................... 35
Main point Sikor and Lund (p. 2) ..................................................................................................................... 37
Bridge in the Netherlands (min 1:23) ............................................................................................................... 37
Environmental injustice/ justice ....................................................................................................................... 37
Melbourne and Mason (2017) .......................................................................................................................... 38
Case: Kiribati ................................................................................................................................................... 38
Kiribati climate refugee (2020) ........................................................................................................................ 39
Concluding remarks questions ......................................................................................................................... 39
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,GC. 6 Dr. Edrem Evrem: Bulldozer Capitalism: Accumulation, Ruination and Dispossession in
Northeastern (19.02.21) ...................................................................................................................................... 40
AKP (Wiki) ....................................................................................................................................................... 40
General questions in his book .......................................................................................................................... 40
The town ........................................................................................................................................................... 41
Violence? .......................................................................................................................................................... 42
Tension between attachments to build environment and the strategies of accumulation and commodification
.......................................................................................................................................................................... 43
Conclusion........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Questions about Marx ...................................................................................................................................... 43
GC. 7 Surfing on a mega crust (23.02.21) ......................................................................................................... 44
Ontological relations........................................................................................................................................ 44
Giant waves (Helmreich).................................................................................................................................. 44
Uitdam today .................................................................................................................................................... 44
Jakarta.............................................................................................................................................................. 45
‘Smong’ or Tidal Waves of the 1907 tsunami in Simeuleu Island ................................................................... 48
Earthquakes in Mentawai Islands .................................................................................................................... 48
Tsunami in Mentawai islands ........................................................................................................................... 48
The 2007 Earthquake in Mentawai Islands (Located between Sipora and Siberut) ........................................ 49
The 2010 Earthquake in Mentawai Islands (Located between Sipora and Pagai Islands) .............................. 50
Lesson from the 2010 Tsunami Mentawai Islands ........................................................................................... 50
Why is there an Absence of Knowledge on Tsunami in Mentawai Islands? ..................................................... 51
Conclusion: Threads of Mentawai Mega crust in Future ................................................................................ 51
HC. 8 Players and actors in Green Development (26.02.21) ........................................................................... 51
Set up of the lecture .......................................................................................................................................... 51
Break-out room questions ................................................................................................................................ 52
Examples: Water harvesting ............................................................................................................................ 53
Key actors in green future making ................................................................................................................... 53
GC.9 Michella Haug Climate Change in Social Science (02.03.21) ................................................................. 56
Climate change and the social sciences? ......................................................................................................... 56
Anthropological Inquiries into Climate Change .............................................................................................. 56
Limits of adaptation ......................................................................................................................................... 56
Climate justice vs. Climate policy .................................................................................................................... 57
Separation Climate change as physical phenomenon from political concept .................................................. 58
Climate change as a traveling idea .................................................................................................................. 59
Translating climate change .............................................................................................................................. 59
Translation Climate Change: North-South Relationships ................................................................................ 60
Sara de Wit some meteorological reflections on studying a traveling idea ..................................................... 62
Muara Nayan.................................................................................................................................................... 63
Oil palm ............................................................................................................................................................ 63
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, Oil Palm Expansion in SOA ............................................................................................................................. 64
Oil Palm Expansion & Climate change ........................................................................................................... 64
Fire Season....................................................................................................................................................... 64
Conservation Efforts…(peatland rehabilitation) .............................................................................................. 66
Climate change mitigation: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD ++).. 66
Internationale klimatverhandlung und REDD ................................................................................................. 66
The central idea of REDD ................................................................................................................................ 67
REDD – feared consequences for indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities .............................. 67
Envisioning alternative (palm oil) futures ........................................................................................................ 68
What is ‘Just Transition’? ................................................................................................................................ 69
What are the major problems? ......................................................................................................................... 70
Different movement – different goals ............................................................................................................... 70
Mosaic Landscapes as a Transformative Vision for the Palm Oil Industry ..................................................... 71
What characterizes the anthropological perspective on climate change? ....................................................... 72
HC. 10 Green Development from below (05.03.21) .......................................................................................... 73
Programme ....................................................................................................................................................... 73
Recapitulation .................................................................................................................................................. 73
Burnham and Ma (2016) .................................................................................................................................. 73
Key insights about locals: ................................................................................................................................ 73
Literature review: outcomes ............................................................................................................................. 74
Adapting to what? Where are people adapting too? ........................................................................................ 74
Examples adaptation ........................................................................................................................................ 75
Some lessons about adaptation ........................................................................................................................ 76
Adaptation as a buzzword/ fuzzwords .............................................................................................................. 76
Cornwall and Brock on Buzzwords becoming Fuzzwords ............................................................................... 77
Buzzwords ........................................................................................................................................................ 77
Break-out room questions ................................................................................................................................ 77
Examples: buzzwords which became fuzzy ....................................................................................................... 77
Buzzwords and fuzzwords according to Lewis and Gardner ............................................................................ 77
Example: ‘development’ & Ideas that changed the world? ............................................................................. 78
Buzzwords & fuzzwords Tsing .......................................................................................................................... 78
Semantic networks and travelling meanings .................................................................................................... 79
Deciphering development language (he did not discuss this) .......................................................................... 79
Good governance as a buzzword ...................................................................................................................... 79
The mobilizing power of climate change video ................................................................................................ 80
Extinction Rebellion – what can we learn? ...................................................................................................... 80
GC. 11 Bram Bücher: Climate, capitalism, contestation, change: a political ecology approach (09.03.21) 80
Outline for today .............................................................................................................................................. 80
Political ecology definition .............................................................................................................................. 81
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