Ecologies of Care 2024-25
October 14, 2024 | Humanities 1, Rm 210
The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Lincoln University (LU) this initiative invites scholars at the forefront of the social sciences, arts, and humanities to address livability as a desired condition for all. Unbreathable air, unbearable temperature, and unimaginable disparities we have witnessed as scholars in South Asia. Register here
This initiative adopts an Indigenous lens for a decolonial assessment of the current socio-ecological situation in South Asia and the paths forward to a livable future for all. What does it mean to live in this time of changing climates? Why do we show up for the care work required of us? How are relationships emboldened or refracted by Ecologies of Care? Existing situations force us to reassess our methodological tools as well. Centering care means adopting an ethic of responsibility, connections, and respect rather than the established notions of neutrality and objectivity. Ecologies of Care as a framework for life encourages scholars to reconfigure their independent individual research practice as interconnected nodes of life-sustaining forms of knowledge co-creation.
Details
Date: October 14, 2024
Time: 9:45am – 4:00pm
Venue
Humanities 1, Rm 210
Speakers:
Ritodhi Chakrabarty is a broadly trained, interdisciplinary environmental social scientist and activist. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ‘Centre of Excellence: Future Productive Landscapes’ at Lincoln University, he helped create a multifunctional landscape design reflecting place-based indigenous aspirations and audited the potential for just engagement within such projects.
Michael Hathaway currently teaches anthropology and directs the David Lam Centre for the Asia Pacific at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He has worked on Indigenous politics in China and Japan, and was inspired to appreciate how understanding social life as including many beings can help us foster more livable worlds for all.
Zulunungsang Lemtur belongs to the Ao (Naga) tribe from Nagaland, India and he currently teaches at Oikos University, Oakland. He received his PhD from Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA and he is the author of Climate Refugees: Towards a Tribal Theology of Restoration, and Tribal Cultural Imagination and Theological Conversation.
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is a Sharwa from Pharak, northeastern Nepal (popularly known as the Mount Everest region). She is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia at the University of British Columbia.
Kesang Tshomo is a horticulture scientist and the Advisor to the Department of Agriculture, Bhutan. She serves as a Specialist (III) under the Department of Agriculture, provides policy advice and recommendations and guidance on overall growth and direction of the Department for Agriculture.