12th November (Thursday)
1.5 hours
New York 01:00
Buenos Aires 03:00
Amsterdam 07:00
Nairobi 9:00
Bangkok 13:00
Warrane-Sydney 17:00
Aotearoa-NZ 19:00
Organiser: Bethaney Turner and Emma Sharp
What counts as “community” in community-led climate adaptation, and how is it formed through relations with plants, soils, and other nonhumans (including fungi and microbes)? This session brings together contributions that explore everyday plant–soil practices (First Nations care, gardening, farming/viticulture, composting, seed saving, foraging, forest/bush/mangrove ‘regeneration’ etc.) as sites where diverse forms of community are enacted and negotiated in the context of climate adaptation. Building from anticolonial and diverse economies thinking, we are interested in how ethical relations of care and reciprocity emerge across more-than-human worlds. We also ask how these practices shape or rework community-led climate adaptation and notions of belonging while negotiating extractive and colonial land logics. We are also interested in how such communities can be (or should be) made visible: what methods—participatory, embodied, creative, and arts-based—help surface these relations, practices, and forms of knowledge generation? Contributors may reflect on:
• How “community” is constituted across more-than-human relations
• Everyday practices that enact anticolonial community economies as forms of adaptation
• Methods for surfacing, mapping, and sharing these adaptive practices (e.g. storytelling, yarning, sensory or creative methods)
• The role of policy, planning, and discourse in enabling or constraining these forms of community and community-led adaptation work