Prof. Inanna Hamati-Ataya: 'Climate Change and the Disrupted Temporalities of Agricultural Knowledge-Transfer' | Monthly meeting Environmental Humanities Network

We are pleased to announce that Inanna Hamati-Ataya will be giving a talk titled 'Climate Change and the Disrupted Temporalities of Agricultural Knowledge-Transfer' at the next monthly Environmental Humanities Network meeting on Friday, October 25, from 12:00 to 13:30 in room 1312.0013 (Harmony Complex). We will have ample time for discussion after the talk. 

As always, you can join online as well via this Google Meet link.

Abstract

This talk addresses the temporalities of agricultural knowledge-transfer since the ‘Neolithic Transition’ and how ongoing climatic transformations disrupt the historical patterns of adaptation and circulation through which humankind has successfully preserved ancestral food-producing knowledges throughout the Holocene.

The case of ’terroir’ based knowledges illustrates how these disruptions manifest, within ‘old world' Europe, at a local and regional level, and how the current cultural, political, and legal attitudes aimed at the protection of terroir agriculture against cultural and economic competition from ‘new world’ countries actually undermine our capacity to preserve these knowledges which constitute a common heritage of humanity and a source of sustainable solutions to local environmental degradation.

The presentation will also showcase how an academic engagement with the deep history of agricultural knowledge (supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant) has led to the development of a social enterprise (supported by an ERC Proof of Concept Grant) to provide an anthropological-legal solution to the accelerated temporality of community-based agricultural knowledge-transfer. 

Bio

Inanna Hamati-Ataya is Professor and Chair of Global International Relations at the Faculty of Arts (IRIO Department), and Director of the Centre for International Relations Research (ICOG).

She is the Founding Director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies, jointly hosted at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, and by her Chair Group at Groningen, and has recently co-founded with her partner the Cambridge Sustainability Initiative social enterprise that is launching later this year.