Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 2 — Eulogies)
07/17/24 • 55 min
Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.
The second and final episode, “Eulogies,” is based on fictional writing from the class. Students imagine and eulogize something that could be harmed by the climate emergency, and then imagine a speculative future in which action was taken to mitigate that harm.
Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.
“The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel
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Part 2: Eulogies
02:15 – Clione by Annika Ord
12:49 –The Abundance Will Be Forever by Judith Burr
24:03 – A Eulogy for Wolves by Niki
33:33 – Return of the Hidden Worlds by Sadie Rittman
44:59 — Eulogy for the Bees by Rhonda Thygesen
Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.
The second and final episode, “Eulogies,” is based on fictional writing from the class. Students imagine and eulogize something that could be harmed by the climate emergency, and then imagine a speculative future in which action was taken to mitigate that harm.
Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.
“The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel
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Part 2: Eulogies
02:15 – Clione by Annika Ord
12:49 –The Abundance Will Be Forever by Judith Burr
24:03 – A Eulogy for Wolves by Niki
33:33 – Return of the Hidden Worlds by Sadie Rittman
44:59 — Eulogy for the Bees by Rhonda Thygesen
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Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 1 — Climate Feelings)
Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.
This first episode, “Climate Feelings,” is a collection of students’ non-fiction essays and reflections on their personal realities of living with and researching the climate crisis. The first episode opens with an introductory conversation between Naomi Klein and series producer Judee Burr that contextualizes how this class was structured and the writings it evoked.
Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.
“The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel
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Part 1: Climate Feelings
2:38 — Introduction by Judee Burr and Naomi Klein
19:05 — Connection to Jericho Willows by Ali Tafreshi
22:27 — Connection to the Water by Foster Salpeter
27:06 — Connection to Family and Land by Sara Savino
31:01 — Scientists and Feelings by Annika Ord
36:00 — Biking away from the Smoke by Ruth Moore
39:32 — Climate Sensitivity on the Bus by Nina Robertson
43:13 — Grief and Climate Change Economics by Felix Giroux
46:36 — The Age of Sanctuary by Melissa Plisic
52:04 — Age of Tehom by Maggie O’Donnell
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Future Ecologies presents: The Merry Monarchs
We're excited to share another beautiful guest episode with you today.
In this piece, originally broadcast in 2 parts on The Wind (one of our favourite podcasts), producer Eleanor Qull is taking us on a pilgrimage in honour of, and in tribute to that most collective monarch — the monarch butterfly. Through those lepidopteran migrants, it’s a story of scale, agency, and spiritual offering in a changing world.
Eleanor cooked up a special ~1 hour version just for us. It's spacious, equal parts silly and deadpan, with a big scoop of mono no aware.
If you’d like to see pictures of the pilgrimage offerings from each stop, you can find them at thewind.org/episodes/the-merry-monarchs, along with complete list of citations, plus the original unabridged 2-part version — where the tour makes an additional stop (in space).
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Transcript
Hey, this is Mendel, and you're listening to part two of an audio series we're featuring from the UBC Centre for Climate Justice called "The Right to Feel." I'll pass it over to producer Judee Burr to tell you more.
Judee BurrHi, it's Judee. This is the second and final episode of a two part series of writings that grapple with the emotionality of climate change. These essays and stories were writ
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