Fine Brendtner will be giving a presentation on the situated ecologies of ocean acidification at the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologist of Aotearoa /New Zealand, held on 9-12 December in Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Her research will contribute to the panel "The Shapes of Things to Come: Lines, Topologies, and Morphologies of Climate Change” by elucidating the shapes of the “shell” and the “gradient” as forms foretelling ecological and sociocultural transformations where livability is not lost all at once, but eroded gradually, shell by shell. 

Panel Abstract

Planetary ecological changes are emerging in a wide variety of shapes and forms: Eroding layers of sediment, climate protest picket lines, swirling doppler radar cyclones, sink holes, irregular glacial moraine, the porous topological connections of our respiratory systems, pest traplines, and even droplets of sweat manifest our changing world. Similarly, our spatial vocabularies and metaphors for describing climate geographies are rearranging themselves: Peripheries become frontlines, edges become centers, and borders reconstitute themselves in moments of radical change. This roundtable explores the emerging social, spatial, political, discursive, and material shapes of climate change. How do specific shapes embody come to embody changing natures? What historical patterns and morphologies foretell things to come? What future forms are emerging? How does spatial or geometric language influence our understanding of changing ecologies? How might our metaphors confuse us? We will debate these questions based on scholarship situated in the Pacific, Aotearoa, Latin America, and Asia. 

More information here: https://www.asaanz.org/conference