Plant Knowledges, Migration, and the Politics of Inundation

• In Event: The Greening of Hope: A Feminist Intersectional Reframing of Climate Change

Abstract

This presentation considers the reproductive politics of inundation in two coastal regions along the coast of the Bay of Bengal and the mid-Atlantic coast of North America. Focusing on how localized plant knowledges are hailed as resources for adaptation in both climate change and migration narratives, the presentation suggests that rising waters in the era of climate change offer not just a reconceptualization of human history and ecological agency along the lines of Anthropo- and other "cene" discourses, but also an occasion to rethink the politics of place as a matter of situated geographic knowledges of race and gender.

Presenter

• Neel Ahuja, University of Maryland, College Park