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Climate change, island change, and wellbeing in small island communities

Datum
23. April – 24. April 2025 

CfP for a pan­el in the inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence Health, Envi­ron­ment, and AnThro­pol­o­gy (HEAT)


Call for paper to the pan­el on the top­ic „Cli­mate change, island change, and well­be­ing in small island communities”
Health, Envi­ron­ment, and AnThro­pol­o­gy (HEAT)
Durham
23 – 24 April 2025
co-organ­ised by Durham and Edin­burgh Uni­ver­si­ties and spon­sored by the Roy­al Anthro­po­log­i­cal Soci­ety (RAI)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pan­el: “Cli­mate change, island change, and well­be­ing in small island communities”

Sur­round­ed by sea, islands have long been seen as remote and iso­lat­ed by neces­si­ty, though island life in prac­tice involves move­ment both out of and back towards the island (Kohn, 2006; Nic Craith, 2020). With­out enough atten­tion being paid to the needs of island com­mu­ni­ties in deci­sion- and pol­i­cy-mak­ing affect­ing them, islands are also fre­quent­ly asso­ci­at­ed with vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty (Kot­sira, 2021), among oth­ers rais­ing con­cerns about their sus­tain­abil­i­ty and resilience (Rat­ter, 2017). If island life is already chal­leng­ing as such, what is the fur­ther impact of cli­mate change and cli­mate-induced dis­as­ters on the men­tal health and well­be­ing of islanders, par­tic­u­lar­ly in small island communities?

This pan­el invites papers dis­cussing ethno­graph­ic exam­ples and pri­ma­ry research cov­er­ing aspects such as:

‑Local under­stand­ings of men­tal health and well­be­ing, and whether/how they are impact­ed by the cli­mate cri­sis and the ways islanders respond to chang­ing circumstances.
Access to men­tal health ser­vices and ser­vice gaps to be addressed so small island pop­u­la­tions fac­ing the by-prod­ucts of cli­mate change are supported.
‑How pre­con­cep­tions of remote­ness and iso­la­tion, vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, sus­tain­abil­i­ty and resilience are chal­lenged by the cir­cum­stances cre­at­ed by the cli­mate crisis
local­ly, and their impact on men­tal health and wellbeing.
‑The role of cli­mate change in con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tions of the future on/of small islands, feel­ings of uncer­tain­ty, and their impact on islanders’ men­tal health and
wellbeing.
‑How the men­tal health and well­be­ing of researchers are affect­ed while doing research on small islands impact­ed by the cli­mate cri­sis, includ­ing cop­ing mech­a­nisms and
research strategies.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDANCE

The dead­line for sub­mis­sions is 13 Jan­u­ary 2025.

Please sub­mit your paper abstract through the con­fer­ence por­tal here: https://pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham/abstract/info

Once you access the portal:

Choose from the drop-down menu the event you wish to attend: Health, Envi­ron­ment, and AnThro­pol­o­gy (HEAT) 2025.
Fill in your per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al details.
Pro­vide the title of the paper you wish to present.
Select talk from the list of pre­sen­ta­tion options.
Upload your paper abstract. Your abstract must me no more than 250 words, and attached as a .doc or .pdf file (max­i­mum upload size 10 MB).
Select from the drop-down menu the title of the pan­el you wish to join: Cli­mate change, island change, and well­be­ing in small island communities.

You do not have to be an RAI or ASA mem­ber to pro­pose a paper, but please note that only papers sub­mit­ted via con­fer­ence por­tal will be considered.
More infor­ma­tion about the con­fer­ence can be found on the web­site: https://pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham/health-environment-and-anthropology-heat-2024