This event is sponsored by the RHNHFF BCS Program and the UBC Himalaya Program, with generous support of Department of Asian Studies UBC.
We are delighted to host this hybrid lecture entitled:
Living Spiritually with Climate Change
About this Event
In the context of rapidly increasing temperature and accelerated loss of glaciers threatening cultural survival of Indigenous communities in the high-Himalayas, what is the role of spiritually living? How does spiritual living with climate change inform roles and responsibilities of researchers? Ritodhi Chakraborty and Pasang Yangjee Sherpa will address these questions as they introduce the Knowledge Justice Collective they co-lead. The collective seeks to respectfully advance meaningful engagements across knowledge systems, beginning with the recognition of epistemological value of Indigenous Knowledges in solving world problems.
About the Speakers
Ritodhi Chakraborty is a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Management at Lincoln University in New Zealand. He is a political ecologist and interdisciplinary social scientist, a collaborator with indigenous and agrarian communities to explore pathways to environmental and social justice. For the past decade, Dr. Chakraborty has worked with various universities, think-tanks, public and civil society institutions in United States, India, Bhutan, China and New Zealand on issues of plural knowledges, environmental and social justice, rural transformation, masculinity, climate change and agriculture. Check his profile here.
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is a Sharwa (Sherpa) anthropologist from Pharak in northeastern Nepal. She is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Asian Studies. Her research areas include human dimensions of climate change and Indigeneity with a focus on the Himalayas and the diaspora. Check her page here.
