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:news1920@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260915T093957 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261014T161500 SUMMARY:Atmospheres of Climate Change DESCRIPTION:AbstractClimate change is profoundly emotional. This emotionali ty is often framed in therapeutic terms—anxiety\, solastalgia\, grief— each carrying a strongly negative charge. Namibian pastoralists\, however\ , use different words. They speak of ǃŪke-ai\, a form of collective lone liness\, and other shared affectivities that also contain a glimmer of hop e. Drawing on people's vocabulary and neo-phenomenology\, I theorise how a ffective relations between human and non-human bodies generate atmospheres that transcend their constituent elements. These atmospheres inevitably s hift when elements such as rain\, pasture or animals disappear due to clim ate change. As this loss becomes palpable\, the landscape begins to haunt in an uncanny way. Yet for Namibian pastoralists\, loss is never final. Th eir emotional responses demonstrate how hope can be cultivated\, paving th e way for alternative futures. Thus\, the atmospheres of climate change ha unt ambivalently: they wound by recalling what has vanished\, yet they als o vitalise through the promises they hold.\\r\\nBioMichael Schnegg is Prof essor of Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. His ethnographi c work aims to explore what it feels like to live a rural life in an incre asingly urbanized and warming world. To this end\, he is collaborating wit h philosophers to further the field of phenomenological anthropology.  X-ALT-DESC:

Abstract
Climate change is profoundly e motional. This emotionality is often framed in therapeutic terms—anxiety \, solastalgia\, grief—each carrying a strongly negative charge. Namibia n pastoralists\, however\, use different words. They speak of ǃŪke-ai\, a form of collective loneliness\, and other shared affectivities that also contain a glimmer of hope. Drawing on people's vocabulary and neo-phenome nology\, I theorise how affective relations between human and non-human bo dies generate atmospheres that transcend their constituent elements. These atmospheres inevitably shift when elements such as rain\, pasture or anim als disappear due to climate change. As this loss becomes palpable\, the l andscape begins to haunt 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 atmosph eres of climate change haunt ambivalently: they wound by recalling what ha s vanished\, yet they also vitalise through the promises they hold.

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Michael Schnegg is Professor of Social Anthrop ology at the University of Hamburg. His ethnographic work aims to explore what it feels like to live a rural life in an increasingly urbanized and w arming world. To this end\, he is collaborating with philosophers to furth er the field of phenomenological anthropology.
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