This seminar explores how anthropologists think about climate through concepts such as frontiers, amphibiousness and uncertainty. Through a close reading of Jason Con's (2025) Delta Futures: Time, Territory and Capture on a Climate Frontier we will ask how people make claims on environments that are increasingly shaped by rising waters, shifting border regimes and expanding forms of industrial accumulation.
Supplemented with other texts alongside, films, and activist writings from South Asia, students will examine experiences of climate change in the everyday and how ecological futures are imagined, resisted and governed. The seminar invites creative reflections on what it means to study environments under threat. Ultimately, we ask: What is the role of anthropology in envisioning political and ecological forces that shape uncertain times ahead?
- Trainer/in: Monga Tarini