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Seminar: Climate Trauma and Ecologies of Repair at the Periphery of Europe

On the 12th January 2023, Dr. Irina Velicu will be visiting the Center to deliver a seminar on Climate Trauma and Ecologies of Repair at the Periphery of Europe.

20.12.2022

 

TitleClimate Trauma and Ecologies of Repair at the Periphery of Europe
Date/time: Thursday 12th January, from 1pm-3pm.
Location: UPF Campus de la Ciutadella, Mercè Rodoreda 24.021
Presenter: Dr. Irina Velicu

Summary: While political ecology and environmental justice scholarship documented the material socio-ecological losses of multiple environmental conflicts worldwide, less is known about the invisible-intangible-intimate, psycho-somatic impacts of such conflicts. Both political ecology and ecopsychology evidence that there are specific populations with amplified health impacts and increased vulnerability to injury, usually resource-dependent communities living in ecologically sensitive regions (such as Icelandic people, fishers, Indigenous Peoples or peasants) who rely on ecosystems to make a living and contribute the least to climate change. In this presentation, I look at locally relevant idioms of emotional and psychological distress within rural communities of peripheric Europe facing ecosystem loss as part of prospective mega-development proposals for mining and land grab. I use the concept of climate trauma to better understand the complexity of such social suffering and expand visions of restorative and reparative eco-social justice.

BIO: Irina Velicu is a researcher working on political ecology and socio-environmental conflicts at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Velicu was PI of JustFood FCT project (2018-2022), expanding her work on environmental and food justice in Europe. Her work has received funding from international research organizations (including the EU-FCT, Marie Curie, Chevening-OSI). Her recent publications can be found in journals such as Environmental Politics, Ecological Economics, Geoforum, Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Rural Studies, Antipode, Globalizations, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaii (USA) and an MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests revolve around the topics of justice, social transformation and aesthetic politics.

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