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CATEGORIES:CRASSH
SUMMARY:The Burning Issue: Hazy Relations and the Construc
 tion of Knowledge in the Land Management Fires of 
 Southeast Asia - gloknos seminar - Julia L Cassani
 ti (Washington State University)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190620T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190620T170000
UID:TALK126712AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/126712
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to join us for this event in the ‘
 cum panis’ seminar series\, hosted by gloknos at C
 RASSH . The ‘cum panis’ seminars are a space to sh
 are work currently in progress and break bread (or
  cake!) with new intellectual companions.\n\nIn th
 is session we are joined by Dr Julia Cassaniti (Wa
 shington State University). Julia L Cassaniti is a
 n Associate Professor of Medical and Psychological
  Anthropology at Washington State University\, and
  a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Social An
 thropology at the University of Cambridge.\n\nAbst
 ract:\nAir pollution during the hot season is an i
 ncreasingly recognised health crisis across Southe
 ast Asia\, with the air quality index (AQI) of Chi
 ang Mai in March 2019 almost four times higher tha
 n the recommended 100 AQI safety standard\, and th
 ose neighbouring countries not far behind. Yet as 
 people demand action from their governments\, the 
 causes and solutions to the burning are often hazy
  and unclear. While city and countryside residents
  walk around Northern Thailand with air masks on\,
  squinting to see in front of them\, many point up
  to the hills\, where Karen\, Hmong\, and other up
 land minority communities burn crops each year to 
 make way for a new cycle of planting. Yet while th
 e imagined worlds of upland communities are centra
 l to the national rhetoric on air pollution in the
  country\, the cosmological imagination of lowland
  communities regarding themselves and their relati
 ons to these communities is of equal if not more i
 mportance. This talk will use ethnographic evidenc
 e to cover some of the central explanations for th
 e air pollution problems\, from upland burning to 
 the rise in agrobusiness\, using it as a case stud
 y to better understand the creation of perceptions
  about causation and responsibility. By re-centeri
 ng discussion on the different ways that causes ar
 e represented\, and the knowledge of selves and ot
 hers are imagined\, this talk will shed light on s
 ome of the cosmo-political epistemologies at play 
 in a burning global issue. \n\nPlease email sjp229
 @cam.ac.uk to confirm your space for this seminar.
LOCATION:CRASSH Meeting Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 
 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
CONTACT:Samantha Peel
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