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| - | ### Climate change Fiction and its Potential for Transformation: Episode 1| 17/01/2024 | + | ### Climate Change Fiction: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh |
| + | {{ :events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:climate_fiction_talks_poster_designs_ep_4.jpg?nolink&200|}}Our last three sessions have discussed climate change fiction’s speculative capacities, examined imaginative responses to the alienation between humans and nature through these areas of speculative fiction, and discussed the anthology Ecoceanic: Southern Flows in this context. | ||
| + | In this session, Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriksh and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives will be conversing with Amitav Ghosh, celebrated author, about issues such as the range and scope of climate fiction, and its potential for influencing actual action on the climate crisis. | ||
| - | The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where can we turn to find systemic alternatives? | + | ## Past events |
| - | In this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we hope to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being foregrounded as a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge), as well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre has found roots in this region. | + | GTA is usually presented in many conferences and gatherings around the world. Here we present a resume and report of each participation. |
| - | **[[.::2024_Climate Change Fiction Webinars |Access to details]]** | + | ### Marine ecosystems and climate fiction from South Asia - Episode 3 | 06/04/2024 |
| + | {{ :events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:climate_fiction_talks_poster_designs_ep_3.jpg?nolink&200|}} Accelerated anthropogenic climate change poses a serious existential threat to dwellers in the marine world, besides the fisherfolk and inhabitants of coastal areas. The melting of land ice in Antarctica and Greenland, leading to rise of ocean levels, besides the deleterious effects of acidification on marine ecosystems, may soon reach a tipping point if adequate mitigation is not undertaken soon. | ||
| - | ## Past events | + | In this episode, writers and activists from South Asia shared their creative responses to this ongoing crisis, which may eventually lead to biosphere collapse if such trends are not reversed. |
| - | GTA is usually presented in many conferences and gatherings around the world. Here we present a resume and report of each participation. | + | **[[events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:03|Access to details]]** |
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| + | ### Antecedents to climate change fiction: Utopian and speculative narratives from South Asia - Episode 2 | 28/02/2024 | ||
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| + | In this session, we focussed on conceptual and narrative antecedents to contemporary climate change fiction in the region. The focus was thus on the archive of imaginative responses to the alienation of humans from nature in the wake of the introduction of the colonial and post colonial development paradigms. | ||
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| + | Utopian, visionary and speculative narratives from South Asia have sought to engage with consequent environmental degradation and the ecological crisis in different ways. The panelists tracked the possibility of critique and sought to trace the genealogies for the recent turn to climate change fiction in South Asia. | ||
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| + | **[[events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:02|Access to details]]** | ||
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| + | ### World Social Forum 2024 - Kathmandu, Nepal 15/02/2024 - 19/02/2024 | ||
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| + | The GTA participated in the World Social Forum 2024, as co-organizer of two events, along with some Facilitation team members also taking part in various activities. Our Weaver Vikalp Sangam also co-organised two events. | ||
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| + | ### Climate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience - Episode 1 | 17/01/2024 | ||
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| + | The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where can we turn to find systemic alternatives? | ||
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| + | In this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we hope to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being foregrounded as a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge), as well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre has found roots in this region. | ||
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| + | **[[.:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:01|Access to details]]** | ||
| ### Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures | 12/12/2023 | ### Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures | 12/12/2023 | ||
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| ### 2-part Webinar Series by Travellers’ University | 29/09/2023, 06/10/2023 | ### 2-part Webinar Series by Travellers’ University | 29/09/2023, 06/10/2023 | ||
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