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Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson grew up between Sweden, Colombia, and…
DiscoverA Nervous System: Decolonising The Environmental Movement
This event is a part of Book Fringe 2022: PoliNations Edition series.
How did we get here? What broken connections keep us from addressing the climate crisis fully and in the radical ways so urgently needed?
There is no climate justice without fully reckoning with our collective, yet very different, pasts, without addressing the exploitations that gave rise to it. However, within the environmental movement itself - and in wider stories about environmental peril - protection of the non-human world, anti-racism and anti-colonialism often continue to be addressed as separate struggles.
Authors and activists Daniel Macmillen Vosoboynik, Jessica Gaitán Johannesson (The Nerves and Their Endings, How We Are Translated) and Nish Doshi gather to discuss how we continually decolonise the environmental movement, lifting up the stories and histories that were always there, whilst learning to feel more deeply and honestly connected to the world, and to each other.
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The Nerves and Their Endings
The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.
In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitán Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.
She draws parallels between an eating disorder and environmental neurosis, examines the perils of an activist movement built on non-parenthood, dissects the privilege of how we talk about hope, and more.
The synapses that spark between these essays connect essential narratives of response and responsibility, community and choice, belonging…
