The research group System of Systems invites Nadine El-Enany, Radha D'Souza, Nabil Ahmed and Angela Chan 'to explore how resource extraction, fossil capitalism and ecological dilapidation have been central forces in shaping contemporary migration and migratory flows' for a discussion event with Arts Catalyst.

Thursday 22nd October 2020
6.00pm - 8.00pm
18.00 – 19.15 – presentations
19.15 – 20.00 – live Q + A
Register for free here via eventbrite.

"In recent years, there has been a major shift towards a broader societal acceptance that the planet is experiencing a climate crisis, yielding cataclysmic and irreversible effects on human and non-human species and ecosystems. A central turning point in this more widespread acceptance is often pinpointed at the formation of The Paris Agreement in April 2016, which brought the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change into common political parlance, and began tackling greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaption and finance.

Decades before this issue was foregrounded in European politics, climate justice campaigners, indigenous and aboriginal peoples, and those inhabiting places worse affected by the crisis, have been calling for its recognition – yet have long been ignored. Dominant political narratives continue to dispute such groups’ position on how far back one can trace the crisis, and therefore where the roots of the problem lie. The links between contemporary fossil capitalism, imperialism, and the treatment of those who are displaced as a result, demonstrate a shared rendering of non-renewable resources and migrant bodies as extractable and disposable. In this way, the programme aims to explore and exemplify critical ways of narrating the intersections of migration and climate issues."

Entry is free and all levels of experience and interest welcome.
The event will be live streamed via video conferencing software. Detailed instructions on how to join will be provided for those attending.

System of Systems

System of Systems is a research project – co-founded by Rebecca Glyn-Blanco, Danae Io and Maria McLintock – that uses the format of exhibitions, publications and public programming to address the use of technology and bureaucracy in the asylum seeking process in Europe. SoS sees the importance of a long term commitment to focus not just on the individual migrant experience, but specifically on the system that produces and processes migration, under the pretence of security. By involving artists, architects and designers along with policy-makers, activists and researchers, SoS strives to create a diverse way of critically examining migration processing systems in a way that is accessible to non-specialists.

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Red indicates forest loss between 2000 – 2019; blue indicates forest gain 2000 – 2012. The Chaco woodlands of Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina are under intensive pressure from agroindustrial development. Paraguay’s Chaco woodlands within the western half of the country are experiencing rapid deforestation in the development of cattle ranches, the result is the highest rate of deforestation in the world. Image courtesy Global Forest Change.