Higher seminar: Caring for a glacier

We are very happy to once again welcome Marzia Varutti from University of Geneva to give a seminar, this time on the theme of care. Marzia was a visiting researcher at CCHS in Gothenburg in the autumn of 2024. 

This seminar presentation explores a speculative question: what might it mean to care for a glacier? Theoretically, it approaches care through affective lenses, that is, as a manifestation of an affective connection. Applied to glaciers, this translates into a focus on ecological grief and the mourning enactments that express it, such as memorials for disappearing glaciers. I suggest ecological grief and mourning for glaciers are acts of care: they substantiate an ethics of reciprocity and responsibility which can open a path towards reformed (affective) relationalities with the more than human.