GeoDiskurse in cooperation with: Transient Spaces Lecture Series. Lecture is on 13th June 2024,10:15 until 11:45 at Hörsaal 5, University of Innsbruck. Title: Urban public spaces as catalysts for empowerment and social inclusion. By Hooshmand Alizadeh.

Climate Change and Counteradaptation

This talk will focus on research in Sierra Leone, Brazil, and Nepal investigating the generative potential of ‘counteradaptation’ as a novel theoretical framework for advancing environmental social science. Mainstream adaptation policy obscures the fact that people do not simply adapt to isolated geophysical phenomena; rather, their survival strategies are inextricably entangled with the realities of global coloniality. Counteradaptation sharpens political ecological accounts by integrating a deeper structural diagnosis into our understanding of climate vulnerability. In doing so, it provides essential criteria for evaluating concrete policy pathways, allowing us to distinguish between interventions that perpetuate transnational relations of inequality and those that fulfill reparative obligations.

Heidelberg University, Marsilius-Kolleg, Hörsaal (Lecture Room)

2th July 2026, 11:15 – 12:45

Poster of Richardson’s lecture:

Speaker

Asst. Prof. Dr. Eugene Richardson

Harvard University, USA

Dr. Richardson’s work centers on the complex webs of health inequities, racial capitalism, and climate change by critically examining how structural forces and symbolic power permeate and configure socio-ecological systems. Methodologically, he integrates diverse disciplines—including political ecology, epidemiology, anthropology, science and technology studies, and complexity theory—to explore the discursive, material, and socio-historical dimensions of human-environment relations.

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