Climate Change, Conservation and the Increasing Number of Sargassum blooms in the Caribbean
Where; Hogan Hall, 2910 Broadway, When; Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, 12:00 to 1:00 PM
Professor Patrick Gallagher will discuss his current research on climate change, conservation and the increasing number of Sargassum blooms in the Caribbean to open a discussion on research methods for socio-ecological interfaces in a rapidly changing coastal environment.
Professor Patrick Gallagher's research is centered on the cultural politics of nature and the growing role of the market in efforts to produce and protect environmental resources under climate change. His forthcoming book, ‘Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World: Natural Capital, Climate Change and the Imagination of Disaster in Coastal Belize (Columbia University Press) explores the way in which racialized colonialism, contemporary conservation, and emergent climate change science interact to produce precarious new forms of capitalist value that are made paradoxically through vivid imaginations of disaster and loss in a changing global environment. Based upon nearly a decade of ethnographic work in Belize, the book describes how new market-oriented modes of conservation draw value from landscapes that are the material artifacts of long histories of racialized dispossession and exclusion.
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