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Danielle Celermajer - Conversation on "Summertime"

Anthropocene - from despair to active hope A 5 week exploration - more info and registration: https://bit.ly/3DO56JQ ——— Danielle Celermajer is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies Justice project. Integral to her academic work is the intentional multispecies community in which she lives. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires with a multispecies community, she began writing about a new crime of our age, Omnicide. Her latest book, Summertime (Penguin Random House, 2021) was written in recognition of the critical urgency of conveying the complex conceptual recognition of the multispecies harms of the climate catastrophe in ways that can provoke affect and hence action. ——- The current state of the world presents us with unprecedented dilemmas. With every passing day, it overwhelms us with its unending complexity, ever-unfolding challenges, and unfathomable injustice and suffering, demanding multi-scale, multi-sector solutions and actions with ever-increasing urgency. As individuals, we oscillate between strong emotions (such as despair, guilt, hope fear, anxiety, empowerment, anger, sadness) and not feeling anything at all (numbness/ frozen). This is natural, given the complexity and enormity of the challenges that we are facing- when our actions seem futile, when solutions turn into problems within a short time, when it is so hard to fully comprehend the state of the world and our place in it, when the monstrous storm of poly-crises is raging its head, taking every bit of certainty with it. Perhaps, through navigating the inner landscape of our embodied selves, we could find pathways to courageous imaginations for our outer worlds. Perhaps, slowing down together, engaging in creative expressions of ourselves, and witnessing each other, could help us co-create new ways to be human, one that emerges from active hope, a hope that is based on our own active participation in transformation of the world.