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DESCRIPTION:The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute presents Adeem
Suhail\, assistant professor of anthropology at Franklin and Marshall Coll
ege.This talk highlights creative practices of cosmological speculation bo
rn in the wake of ecological catastrophe on the Makran Coast of Pakistan.
Coastal ecologies on the Makran Coast along the Arabian Sea are dying. The
UN’s report on climate change (IPCC 2022) marks this region as one of the
ten most vulnerable to catastrophic climate change. Recent weather patter
ns have borne this out: the catastrophic floods in Pakistan in 2022 that k
illed roughly two thousand people and displaced forty-five million being t
he latest in a series of extreme events amidst more dire and persistent tr
ends. \;Scientists use sophisticated measuring and modeling to confide
ntly explain the accelerated erosion of coastlands\, large-scale mangrove
forest depletion\, the loss of traditional fishing zones\, and the intensi
fication of deadly drought-flood patterns on the Makran coast. The communi
ties that inhabit the Makran have access to no such resources. They have h
ad to assemble a real-time response to ecological destruction in the conte
xt of state abandonment\, resource deprivation\, and global apathy. \;
And they have. This talk is an exploration of how the people of the Makran
adapt ancestral knowledge forms\, transnational kinship networks and fait
h-based modes of self-organization to patch together an autonomous\, indig
enous response to climate change.This event is co-sponsored by the departm
ents of Religion and Geography and the Environment.Suhail is assistant pro
fessor of anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College. His research enga
ges the anthropology of violence\, social theory and urban studies. His cu
rrent project\, "Machines of Violent Desire\," interrogates how non-state
violence and transnational kinship networks contribute to order-making in
urban South Asia\, especially in contexts of ecological and political frac
ture. He is concurrently working on a co-authored book addressing how huma
n communities confront emergent ecological and political crises globally.
His recent publications include "Urban Rearrangements: A Movement in Five
Suites" (IJURR\, 2023) and "Unarchiving Baloch History: ‘Small’ Account of
Baloch Women that Make Waves in the Indian Ocean" (2023). \;
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SUMMARY:Faith and Flood: Indigenous Responses to Ecological Catastrophe in
Coastal Pakistan
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Insti
tute presents Adeem Suhail\, assistant professor of anthropology at Frankl
in and Marshall College.
This talk highlights creative practice
s of cosmological speculation born in the wake of ecological catastrophe o
n the Makran Coast of Pakistan. Coastal ecologies on the Makran Coast alon
g the Arabian Sea are dying. The UN’s report on climate change (IPCC 2022)
marks this region as one of the ten most vulnerable to catastrophic clima
te change. Recent weather patterns have borne this out: the catastrophic f
loods in Pakistan in 2022 that killed roughly two thousand people and disp
laced forty-five million being the latest in a series of extreme events am
idst more dire and persistent trends. \;
Scientists use sophisticated measuring and mode
ling to confidently explain the accelerated erosion of coastlands\, large-
scale mangrove forest depletion\, the loss of traditional fishing zones\,
and the intensification of deadly drought-flood patterns on the Makran coa
st. The communities that inhabit the Makran have access to no such resourc
es. They have had to assemble a real-time response to ecological destructi
on in the context of state abandonment\, resource deprivation\, and global
apathy. \;An
d they have. This talk is an exploration of how the people of the Makran a
dapt ancestral knowledge forms\, transnational kinship networks and faith-
based modes of self-organization to patch together an autonomous\, indigen
ous response to climate change.
This event is
co-sponsored by the departments of Religion and Geography and the Environ
ment.
Suhail is assistant professor of anthropolo
gy at Franklin and Marshall College. His research engages the anthropology
of violence\, social theory and urban studies. His current project\, "Mac
hines of Violent Desire\," interrogates how non-state violence and transna
tional kinship networks contribute to order-making in urban South Asia\, e
specially in contexts of ecological and political fracture. He is concurre
ntly working on a co-authored book addressing how human communities confro
nt emergent ecological and political crises globally. His recent publicati
ons include "Urban Rearrangements: A Movement in Five Suites" (IJ
URR\, 2023) and "Unarchiving Baloch History: ‘Small’ Account of Baloch Wom
en that Make Waves in the Indian Ocean" (2023). \;