The Just Eco-Geo-Political Futures Research Cluster

The Just Eco-Geo-Political Futures Research Cluster (a Sociology collaboration with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) presents a Department of Sociology Seminar

What is the role of atmosphere in opening political horizons? How can mountains be understood as affective resources? What can we learn about a decolonial ethnography that pays attention to atmosphere and repair in conditions of violence? Join Dr. Omer Aijazi, Assistant Professor in Critical Disaster Studies at the University of Manchester, in conversation about their multi award-winning book, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir, regarding what discursive repair might mean through decolonial ethnographic method.

The is a hybrid event. Please register at this link for both in-person and teams participation https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b2541d58-c845-499a-a4f5- c46838ea33f8@09bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc

Conversants include:

Professor Goldie Osuri (Sociology) and Dr. Nerea Calvillo (CIM).

Biographies:

Omer Aijazi is a critical disaster studies scholar and decolonial ethnographer of borderland South Asia. He teaches at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester.

Nerea Calvillo works at the intersection between spatial design, feminist technoscience, queer and environmental studies, and is author of Aeropolis: Queering air in Toxicpolluted worlds (Columbia Press, 2023).

Goldie Osuri's current research addresses the relationship between sovereignty (political authority) and colonialism and occupation in (post) colonial contexts