Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Project Directors: Paige West, Kevin Fellezs, J.C. Salyer
Pacific Climate Circuits applied lenses of race, class, gender, sexuality, and inequality to the current analyses of climate change in the Pacific Region. The working group, directed by Paige West, Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College; Kevin Fellezs, Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies, Columbia University; and J.C. Salyer, Term Assistant Professor of Practice, Sociology, Barnard College, examined the specific political-economic systems culpable for climate change in the region, linking them to its histories of colonialism and neoliberalism. Researchers sought solutions outside the typical hard sciences approach, instead drawing on scholarship in the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences to scrutinize the region, its environment, and its people.
News
Paige West and the Pacific Climate Circuits working group have published a new paper that is the first to be co-authored by a combination of scholars and activists from Papua New Guinea, the USA, as well as Indigenous Elders from New Ireland.
Congratulations to Spring 2021 Grant awardees Kevin Fellezs (Music), Natasha Lightfoot (History), and Camille Robcis (French, History).
Professor Fellezs commented on protest songs and “freedom musics” in this polarized time
Kevin Fellezs and Farah Jasmine Griffin will be editorial board members for this historic collaboration.
Paige West, former co-director of the Pacific Climate Circuits working group, calls attention to the relationship between biodiversity decline and colonialism.
Professor Kevin Fellezs discussed recent protests against police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.
Paige West’s piece is entitled Translations, Palimpsests, and Politics: Environmental Anthropology Now.
The essay series is entitled "From Reciprocity to Relationality: Anthropological Possibilities."
Past Events
CSSD working group Pacific Climate Circuits, with support from the Barnard College Department of Anthropology, presents a free film screening and Q&A with Dan Taulapapa McMullin.
Publications
Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics Working Group
Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics Working Group