Message posted on 29/05/2018
REMINDER: Figuring Disasters // Thinkshop // August 9-10, Valparaiso Chile
Dear all, <br> <br>A friendly reminder. Deadline for applications, this Friday June 1st. <br> <br>Warm regards, <br> <br>m <br> <br> <br> <br>THINKSHOP <br> <br>Figuring disasters: methodological speculations in exorbitant worlds <br> <br>August 9-10, 2018 <br> <br>Valparaíso, Chile <br> <br> <br>Organization: <br> <br>Manuel Tironi, UC Chile & CIGIDEN <br> <br>Gonzalo Bacigalupe, UMass Boston & CIGIDEN <br> <br>Scott Knowles, Drexel University <br> <br> <br>We live in a lively planet. As disasters multiply in frequency and intensity <br>we become aware of our interdependencies with earthly powers we cannot <br>control. At the same time, we see the deep political and cultural <br>entanglements shaping geoclimatic disruptions and their afterlives. Disasters <br>render visible our precarity, our condition of being vulnerable to others, <br>human or otherwise, with whom we exist, flourish, and suffer (Tsing 2015). As <br>damage is predicated upon class, race and gender geometries, precarity, we <br>have learned from disasters, has to be explicated locally and “in the <br>presence of” (Stengers 2005) those who suffer. As political experiments, <br>disasters also reveal the institutional arrangements and knowledge hierarchies <br>webbing together normality, while at the same time rendering problematic the <br>heuristic of the “event”, a trope often unable to unveil the complex <br>temporalities—incremental, slow and multi-scalar—at play in disasters. <br> <br>Disasters, in short, are an analytics for thinking about and with a dynamic <br>planet. <br> <br>But if disasters are an analytics, they are—they need to be—also a method. <br>Disasters summon the need to invent new genres for the figuration, <br>representation and visualization of distributed, processual, and <br>more-than-human geoclimatic disruptions. New regimes of perceptibility (Murphy <br>2006) are required for engaging disasters and the political challenges they <br>bring along. We need new modes of implication—new tools, new registers, new <br>arenas—to shift from the local to the planetary, from the political to the <br>geological, from the eventual to the processual, and to make room for the <br>panoply of voices, sensibilities, and knowledges implicated in the entire <br>disaster cycle. Insofar as disasters disrupt the livelihoods and ecologies of <br>concrete communities and territories—particularly those subjected the <br>violences of late liberal industrialism—we need also methods capable of <br>invoking renewed ethico-political commitments in the face of geopolitical <br>injustice. Importantly, we need methods facilitating co-laboring with people <br>and communities outside academia. <br> <br>Attempting to open a speculative space for doing and thinking, this thinkshop <br>asks: What methods need to be articulated, fostered, or invented for rendering <br>disasters visible and actionable? What narratives, figurations, and <br>visualizations do we require to engage with the multi-scalar, multi-temporal <br>nature of geoclimatic disruptions? What does “data” mean in the wake of <br>the Anthropocene, and how can it be transformed into something meaningful for <br>the communities we work with? How can we collaborate with artists, performers, <br>writers, and other creative practitioners to explore experimental <br>methodologies? What contact zones between activism and science we require to <br>invent new forms of collective action and reclamation in an exorbitant world? <br> <br>Format <br> <br>The 2-days thinkshop is designed as a space for open debate and hands-on <br>activities. We aim at a small group of 15 participants. There will be no paper <br>presentations. PhD candidates, Humanities, Arts and Social Science scholars at <br>all levels, as well as artists, physical scientists, engineers, activists and <br>other practitioners, are encouraged to apply. <br> <br>As a way to situate conceptual explorations, a central element of the <br>thinkshop will be a field visit to the Messana Campamento <br> (informal settlement) in Valparaíso, where we will know about <br>and engage with the ongoing participatory mapping exercise using drones that <br>the community is conducting for the visualization of multi-hazards (fire, <br>landslides, contamination). The guided visit is designed to inspire <br>participants and engage productively in a situated exploration of the <br>questions raised by the thinkshop. <br> <br>Location: Valparaíso <br> <br>The thinkshop will be held at El Internado , a <br>cultural space located in the seaport city of Valparaíso, about 120 km <br>northwest of Santiago and Chile’s second largest metropolitan area. The <br>cultural history of Valparaíso—it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage <br>Site—has cohabited with an intense history of disasters. Eight large <br>earthquakes have hit Valparaíso since 1730, the last one in 2017 (Mw=6.9). <br>Today, due to the irregular expansion of the city and to indiscriminate land <br>use for industrial forestry, Valparaíso also faces risks associated with <br>wildfires, landslides and pollution. <br> <br>Accommodations <br> <br>All meals and accommodations, including transport to and from Valparaíso, <br>will be covered by the organization. Accommodations in Santiago before and <br>after the thinkshop are not covered, and there is no additional financial aid <br>for travel expense. <br> <br>Application and deadlines <br> <br>Applications to participate are now open until June 1st 2018. Apply here <br>. Accepted participants will be <br>notified by mid-July. Any question please contact Manuel Tironi <br>(metironi@uc.cl ). <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Manuel Tironi <br> <br>Profesor Asociado <br>Instituto de Sociología <br>P. Universidad Católica de Chile <br> <br>www.cigiden.cl <br>www.antropoceno.co <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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