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Earth, Gods, and the Politics of Enchantment: A Political Ecology of the Imagination

October 24 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Populist politicians and conspiracy cults enchant their followers through fear – of migrants, End Times, or an imagined nefarious World Government – and through promises of a backward-looking and insular social solidarity – of white Christian America or (Europe), Hindu India, et al. This talk presents a “political ecology of the imagination” that can help us conceive enchantments that might propel the human imagination toward a forward-looking and expansive social solidarity, one that not only bridges across human borders but embraces an animate and more-than-human world.

Presented by UBC Study of Religion and co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Geography

Date: Oct 24, 2024 5pm – 7pm

Hugh Dempster Pavilion (DMP 301)

Adiran Ivakhiv holds Simon Fraser University’s J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities. Until 2024 he was Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont. His books include Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona (2001), Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (2013), Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (2018), ad The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds (forthcoming, 2025).