EEDN The current crises of our time call for nuanced and novel ways of thinking about their connections and complexities to afford a path ‘through the wilderness’. In the Western Cape, experiences of inequality are intricately related to contextual political, economic, social and ecological oppressions that perpetuate South Africa’s ongoing historical legacies, and which are increasingly exacerbated by climate change. This research is transdisciplinary in nature and method, and brings together political ecology, posthumanism, indigeneity, and decoloniality to address an entanglement of socioecological development challenges, while embracing an artsbased and narrative methodology, of critical rhizomatic narrative. It seeks to reveal how these complexities play out in the ‘everyday/night lives’ of residents. It also offers a response to a relatively-recent call for transdisciplinary alliances towards understanding the less-visibilised affects of crisis and resistance in the Anthropocene, and in a context where 'solutionist' approaches to the effects of social/political/economic/ecological complexities defy linear analysis. Jul 03 2025 16.00 - 18.00 EEDN Imminence of Trees: Rhizomatic narrative encounters with indigenous and invasive socioecologies, water, food and livelihoods in Cape Town followed by summer social with Grace O'Donovan, University of Edinburgh Training and Skills, ECCI ECCI
EEDN The current crises of our time call for nuanced and novel ways of thinking about their connections and complexities to afford a path ‘through the wilderness’. In the Western Cape, experiences of inequality are intricately related to contextual political, economic, social and ecological oppressions that perpetuate South Africa’s ongoing historical legacies, and which are increasingly exacerbated by climate change. This research is transdisciplinary in nature and method, and brings together political ecology, posthumanism, indigeneity, and decoloniality to address an entanglement of socioecological development challenges, while embracing an artsbased and narrative methodology, of critical rhizomatic narrative. It seeks to reveal how these complexities play out in the ‘everyday/night lives’ of residents. It also offers a response to a relatively-recent call for transdisciplinary alliances towards understanding the less-visibilised affects of crisis and resistance in the Anthropocene, and in a context where 'solutionist' approaches to the effects of social/political/economic/ecological complexities defy linear analysis. Jul 03 2025 16.00 - 18.00 EEDN Imminence of Trees: Rhizomatic narrative encounters with indigenous and invasive socioecologies, water, food and livelihoods in Cape Town followed by summer social with Grace O'Donovan, University of Edinburgh Training and Skills, ECCI ECCI
Jul 03 2025 16.00 - 18.00 EEDN Imminence of Trees: Rhizomatic narrative encounters with indigenous and invasive socioecologies, water, food and livelihoods in Cape Town followed by summer social with Grace O'Donovan, University of Edinburgh
