BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5309@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260909T164819 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261014T161500 SUMMARY:Michael Schnegg: "Atmospheres of Climate Change" DESCRIPTION:Climate change is profoundly emotional. This emotionality is of ten framed in therapeutic terms – anxiety\, solastalgia\, grief – each carrying a strongly negative charge. Namibian pastoralists\, however\, us e different words. They speak of ǃŪke-ai\, a form of collective loneline ss\, and other shared affectivities that also contain a glimmer of hope. D rawing on people's vocabulary and neo-phenomenology\, Michael Schnegg theo rises how affective relations between human and non-human bodies generate atmospheres that transcend their constituent elements. These atmospheres i nevitably shift when elements such as rain\, pasture or animals disappear due to climate change. As this loss becomes palpable\, the landscape begin s to haunt in an uncanny way. Yet for Namibian pastoralists\, loss is neve r final. Their emotional responses demonstrate how hope can be cultivated\ , paving the way for alternative futures. Thus\, the atmospheres of climat e change haunt ambivalently: they wound by recalling what has vanished\, y et they also vitalise through the promises they hold.\\r\\nMichael Schnegg is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. His eth nographic work aims to explore what it feels like to live a rural life in an increasingly urbanized and warming world. To this end\, he is collabora ting with philosophers to further the field of phenomenological anthropolo gy. X-ALT-DESC:

Climate change is profoundly emotional. This emotionality is often framed in therapeutic terms – anxiety\, solastalgia\, grief – ea ch carrying a strongly negative charge. Namibian pastoralists\, however\, use different words. They speak of ǃŪke-ai\, a form of collective loneli ness\, and other shared affectivities that also contain a glimmer of hope. Drawing on people's vocabulary and neo-phenomenology\, Michael Schnegg th eorises how affective relations between human and non-human bodies generat e atmospheres that transcend their constituent elements. These atmospheres inevitably shift when elements such as rain\, pasture or animals disappea r due to climate change. As this loss becomes palpable\, the landscape beg ins to haunt in an uncanny way. Yet for Namibian pastoralists\, loss is ne ver final. Their emotional responses demonstrate how hope can be cultivate d\, paving the way for alternative futures. Thus\, the atmospheres of clim ate change haunt ambivalently: they wound by recalling what has vanished\, yet they also vitalise through the promises they hold.

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Michael Sc hnegg is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. Hi s ethnographic work aims to explore what it feels like to live a rural lif e in an increasingly urbanized and warming world. To this end\, he is coll aborating with philosophers to further the field of phenomenological anthr opology.

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