Biases, emotional circuits and the powers that play on and off them.. Below Kari Norgaard does provides some anthropological insight into the poltical ecology of climate change knowledge.
In this excellent talk, recorded in 2013, Kari Norgaard offers a wonderful and concise overview of her well known book on the sociology of climate change Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life (2011). What is most interesting, from my perspective, is the way that she deploys conceptions of both emotion (specifically: guilt, fear of the future, and helplessness) with questions of power and power relations (especially Lukes’ notion of 3D power) in her analysis to explain how knowledge of climate change is negotiated, and denied, in everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in Norway, Norgaard shows how this power-emotion nexus is fundamentally social, and constitutive of the social organization of climate denial. Both the book and this short (36m) lecture are well work checking out.
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In her lecture, professor Kari Norgaard uses interviews and ethnographic data from a community in western Norway during the unusually…
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one wouldn’t think that it would be a radical idea to go and actually look into how issues like climate change play out in the daily lives of people but so it goes on planet Eaarth,
short of being part of something like a major revolt/strike by publics I’m not sure what a single citizen who is up to date on the mounting horrors can do to make a real difference, or just do to keep her/his composure and not get worn out/down, anyone have any thoughts on survival tactics?
Our response needs to be micro-collective. My survival tactic is going to be to carve out a niche where capacity can be built within an interpersonal network or assemblage. The dominant culture is a runaway train and its not going to change in any radical way until it collapses because of its petrol-based character. Tinkering just would do the work at this point.
that’s my general take as well, be nice if we could start a kind of “tool” library of tactics/prototypes for people to tinker with and build on (and or scrap), anyone have any ideas on how to advertise/launch such a project?