Jennifer Carlson, University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Texas, is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the energy humanities.
Posted on 10/30/2018 12:40:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Despite overwhelming evidence that climate change is unfolding more rapidly than previously imagined, many policymakers around the world are rolling back environmental protections. Anthropologist Jennifer Carlson will give a talk, “Denial’s Authority: Anti-Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Negativity in Contemporary Climate Politics". Carlson is the Cornell Society for the Humanities 2018-19 sustainability fellow.
Carlson will discuss how embracing anti-environmentalism provides a kind of social affirmation.
“If we’re going to reach out to people, we have to understand that we’re not being asked to educate or optimize, but to improvise with and learn from how their vernacular theories of power and capital enable them to adapt to their world,” Carlson said.
Carlson, a visiting scholar in energy humanities at Rice University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences, researches how the ability to deny climate change increases one’s political authority. Her work employs critical and theoretical humanities tools to understand why scientific evidence is, for some, a reason to become more oppositional, and why evidence does not always amount to authority. “Denial seems to create a sense of social solidarity in a way affirmation cannot,” she said.
This semester Carlson is teaching a class titled Deranged Authority: Culture, Power, and Climate Change. Studying a real-world problem from a variety of perspectives has been rewarding, she said. “My students are really trying to understand the complex question of climate change, not only from an intellectual perspective but from the perspective of living as neighbors.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.cornell.edu ...
Jennifer Carlson, University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Texas, is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the energy humanities.
Phony scientist talking about...
Its our fault the weather is heating up... oh wait - its autumn!
This individual sounds like one of those really smart dumb people.
“Despite overwhelming evidence that climate change is unfolding more rapidly than previously imagined,”
Where is the evidence you stupid academic attention whore?
Please cite the studies and don’t give me any of this peer reviewed crap.
Women are so easily deceived.
Energy Humanities...
LMAO!
Wow she’s hot in a librarian kind of way.
The DNC talking points have shifted again, back to their long-term redistribution / agitprop about their human-induced climate change hoax.
The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change
The Guardian | October 30, 2018 | by Oliver Milman, Emily Holden, David Agren
Posted on 10/30/2018 12:28:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3701286/posts
The stupidest part is failure to understand the role of true beliefs vs false beliefs.
Fixed it.
“...energy humanities ....”
??
Ithaca land of EVIL.
Oh, wow, so cool, this anthropologist is going to come live among us and try to reach across the great cultural divide to share with us the advanced notion that we are causing planet earth to heat up with our idling in pickup lines. I can’t wait to be studied! Will she eat as we eat, live as we live? How BRAVE! How will she SURVIVE?!
Despite overwhelming evidence that climate change is unfolding more rapidly than previously imagined...
They’re right!!
My nephew’s child will NEVER see snow in NYC!!!
Tampa is under water!!
So is the FDR Drive!!
Wait...
Oh, my no. The ability to demand social change on its unproven link to human action is what increases one's political authority. That's the problem.
“Despite overwhelming evidence....”
Overwhelming only to journalists, SJWs, “studies” majors, and English departments.
Uh, no.
Nonsense. The environmentalists have gone nuts and cr@pped in their hats and cried wolf too many times. Most people can spot a scam when they see one....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.