BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news452@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260825T111532 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261014T161500 SUMMARY:Atmospheres of Climate Change DESCRIPTION:Abstract Climate change is profoundly emotional. This emotiona lity is often framed in therapeutic terms—anxiety\, solastalgia\, grief —each carrying a strongly negative charge. Namibian pastoralists\, howev er\, use different words. They speak of ǃŪke-ai\, a form of collective l oneliness\, and other shared affectivities that also contain a glimmer of hope. Drawing on people's vocabulary and neo-phenomenology\, I theorise ho w affective relations between human and non-human bodies generate atmosphe res that transcend their constituent elements. These atmospheres inevitabl y shift when elements such as rain\, pasture or animals disappear due to c limate change. As this loss becomes palpable\, the landscape begins to hau nt in an uncanny way. Yet for Namibian pastoralists\, loss is never final. Their emotional responses demonstrate how hope can be cultivated\, paving the way for alternative futures. Thus\, the atmospheres of climate change haunt ambivalently: they wound by recalling what has vanished\, yet they also vitalise through the promises they hold. \\r\\nBioMichael Schnegg is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. His ethnog raphic work aims to explore what it feels like to live a rural life in an increasingly urbanized and warming world. To this end\, he is collaboratin g with philosophers to further the field of phenomenological anthropology. X-ALT-DESC:

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Climate change is profo undly emotional. This emotionality is often framed in therapeutic terms— anxiety\, solastalgia\, grief—each carrying a strongly negative charge. Namibian pastoralists\, however\, use different words. They speak of ǃŪk e-ai\, a form of collective loneliness\, and other shared affectivities th at also contain a glimmer of hope. Drawing on people's vocabulary and neo- phenomenology\, I theorise how affective relations between human and non-h uman bodies generate atmospheres that transcend their constituent elements . These atmospheres inevitably shift when elements such as rain\, pasture or animals disappear due to climate change. As this loss becomes palpable\ , the landscape begins to haunt in an uncanny way. Yet for Namibian pastor alists\, loss is never final. Their emotional responses demonstrate how ho pe can be cultivated\, paving the way for alternative futures. Thus\, the atmospheres of climate change haunt ambivalently: they wound by recalling what has vanished\, yet they also vitalise through the promises they hold.
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Bio
Michael Schnegg is Profess or of Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. His ethnographic w ork aims to explore what it feels like to live a rural life in an increasi ngly urbanized and warming world. To this end\, he is collaborating with p hilosophers to further the field of phenomenological anthropology.

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