Theme: 1. Uneven Geographies, Ecologies, Technologies and Human Futures
Dimas Dwi Laksmana
Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Yunita T. Winarto
Warung Ilmiah Lapangan (WIL), University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Yunita T. Winarto
Warung Ilmiah Lapangan (WIL), University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Stephen G. Sherwood
Knowledge, Technology and Innovation, Fundación EkoRural, Ecuador and Wageningen University, Ecuador
Dimas Dwi Laksmana
Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Yunita T. Winarto
Warung Ilmiah Lapangan (WIL), University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Dolly Priatna
Graduate School of Environmental Management, Pakuan University, Belantara Foundation, Indonesia
Sharyn Davies
Monash University, Australia
The recent UN Stocktake report underlines the need for systemic change to keep the global temperature rising below 1.50C while ensuring equity and inclusivity at multiple scales. This report underlines several issues in climate change mitigation and adaptation. These are loss and damage, the need for phasing out of fossil fuel while scaling up renewable energy, the question of accountability, and the accessibility of funds for adaptation measures. These findings and propositions stress the urgent conditions of the current climate actions and the pathways that need to be taken.
This panel attempts to position the diverse experiences of living through climate change in Southeast Asia by critically engaging with the above climate change development paradigms. Attending to the dialectics between diverse knowledges is central to investigating the plurality of embodied experiences of responding, inhabiting, and living through increasing anthropogenic climate variability. Ongoing El Niño that causes prolonged and intensified dry seasons in insular Southeast Asia, for example, offers real-time and urgent matters of concern as it hampers smallholders’ livelihoods. Simultaneously, increasing sea levels, coupled with tropical cyclones and flash floods, threaten coastal communities. Existing studies scrutinize some of the responses proposed by multitudes of actors, such as the carbon market, participatory strategy to build locals’ knowledge of agrometeorology, ecotourism, biodiversity conservation, and decoupling of economy from energy- and emission-intensive activities.
Building on anthropological and interdisciplinary scholarships on climate change, some of the questions we would like to reflect on with a particular emphasis on experiences in the region are:
1. How do subjectivity and reflexivity help or hinder our analysis of the ways multi-scalar responses and interventions that rely on diverse knowledges may (re)produce vulnerability and inequality?
2. How does a predominantly technological- and science-oriented global climate governance frame a historically political issue like climate change? How does attending to the contingency of the political shed light on ongoing struggles and the possibility of alliance building in climate change scholarships?
3. How does examination on terms like (but not limited to) “inclusivity”, “equity”, “decarbonization”, “accountability”, and “just transition” all of which are central to climate governance, allow critical scholarships to engage with policymakers?
We envisage a special volume or an edited book to be a potential output of this panel. We organise the panel in two sessions with the following order.
Presenter: Stephen G. Sherwood – Knowledge, Technology and Innovation, Fundación EkoRural, Ecuador and Wageningen University
Presenter: Dimas Dwi Laksmana – Universitas Indonesia
Co-Presenter: Yunita T. Winarto – Warung Ilmiah Lapangan (WIL), University of Indonesia
Presenter: Dolly Priatna – Graduate School of Environmental Management, Pakuan University, Belantara Foundation
Presenter: Sharyn Davies – Monash University
Co-Presenter: Miya Irawati