CLEAN Teleconference Call September 3, 2019
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Laughter, Grief, and Everything in Between: Mobilizing Climate Change Emotions
Bio: Nicole Seymour is Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Studies and Queer Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013), Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), and, with Katherine Fusco, co-author of Kelly Reichardt (University of Illinois Press's Contemporary Film Directors Series, 2017). You can find her on Twitter at @nseymourPHD.
Abstract: My presentation will have two parts. In the first, I'll talk about my research interest in "inappropriate" environmental affects and emotions such as irreverence, humor, and ambivalence. In my most recent book, Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age, I describe how contemporary artists and activists in the Global North have mobilized such affects and emotions in service of their particular agendas, and as alternatives to the "doom and gloom" that typically characterizes mainstream environmentalist discourse. In the second part, I'll talk about my recent involvement with the NXTerra project, an open-access set of Web resources for climate-change educators that will launch this fall. With Sarah Jaquette Ray, I have been curating a specific set of pedagogical resources focused on climate change-related emotions. I'll describe some of the resources we've collected and how they might allow instructors to engage productively with emotions such as grief and apathy.
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