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Livelihoods under pressure: Vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience in developmental contexts

Datum
13. Jan­u­ar 2025 

CfP for Pan­el at Health Envi­ron­ment and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAt) con­fer­ence in Durham


CfP for Pan­el: „Liveli­hoods under pres­sure: Vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, adap­ta­tion, and resilience in devel­op­men­tal contexts”
Health Envi­ron­ment and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAt) con­fer­ence in Durham
23 April–24 April 2025

The call for abstracts is open until 13 January
We invite paper abstracts of 250 words for our panel

Abstract:
This pan­el con­sid­ers liveli­hoods at the inter­sec­tions of cli­mate change, envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion, and glob­al health crises. We aim to fos­ter dia­logue between med­ical, envi­ron­men­tal and devel­op­ment anthro­pol­o­gy by tak­ing a bot­tom-up, ethno­graph­ic view on chang­ing liveli­hoods whilst crit­i­cal­ly engag­ing with devel­op­men­tal con­cepts of liveli­hood diver­si­fi­ca­tion, sus­tain­able liveli­hoods, and alter­na­tive liveli­hoods in a world where cli­mate change adds new pres­sures as peo­ple strug­gle to get by.

Peo­ple around the world are trou­bled by cli­mate change, but many com­mu­ni­ties in the Glob­al South are dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly affect­ed by the con­ver­gence of emerg­ing envi­ron­men­tal and health chal­lenges with long-stand­ing socioe­co­nom­ic vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties. They are also more com­mon­ly the tar­gets of devel­op­ment projects that aim to encour­age par­tic­u­lar kinds of liveli­hood tran­si­tion. Such com­mu­ni­ties have often relied on nat­ur­al resource-depen­dent liveli­hoods that are increas­ing­ly threat­ened by cli­mate change, bio­di­ver­si­ty loss, and ecosys­tem degra­da­tion, and which may also pose height­ened risks of emerg­ing infec­tious dis­eases. How­ev­er, often they also dis­play tremen­dous agency and inno­va­tion in the face of these inter­con­nect­ed chal­lenges. By cen­tring our pan­el on liveli­hood strate­gies, and how these take place with­in, in con­ver­sa­tion with, and beyond devel­op­men­tal fram­ings, this pan­el will explore the lived expe­ri­ences of those most affect­ed by these plan­e­tary changes.

By exam­in­ing diverse case stud­ies from around the world, we aim to illu­mi­nate the ways in which com­mu­ni­ties are nav­i­gat­ing, adapt­ing to, and resist­ing the impacts of glob­al cli­mate change on their liveli­hoods and well­be­ing. We also seek ethno­graph­ic insights into how pro­grammes aim­ing to sup­port liveli­hoods are received or reworked on the ground. 

Please email to hannah.brown@DURHAM.AC.UK if you have any ques­tions. Pan­el abstracts must be sub­mit­ted via the con­fer­ence man­age­ment sys­tem.

Best wish­es,
Hannah