Executive Session - Oral Presentation

Sponsored by: AAA Executive Program Committee

(3-0380) How Anthropology Matters in the Anthropocene: Understanding the Cultures and Politics of Climate Change Denial

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizer(s)

• Sophie Bjork-James

  Assistant Professor of the Practice
  Vanderbilt University

Chair(s)

• Christine Folch

  Duke University

Presenter(s)

• Janelle Lamoreaux

  Assistant Professor
  University of Arizona

• Liz Koslov

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Sophie Bjork-James

  Assistant Professor of the Practice
  Vanderbilt University

• Christine Folch

  Duke University

• Nicholas Shapiro

  Chemical Heritage Foundation

Discussant(s)

• Adriana Petryna

  University of Pennsylvania

Presentations:

• 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

  Banking on Denial: Conserving Biodiversity in the time of Trump/Brexit
• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  Climate change adaptation without climate change: Producing “agnostic adaptation” on Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  Is Environmental Collapse a Threat When You’re Praying for the Rapture? The Temporality of Evangelical Environmental Politics
• 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  Denying Denialism and Reimagining Evangelical Nature-scapes
• 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

  The Shifting Sands of US Federal Climate and Environmental Information
• 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

  Discussion