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The Global School Forum Presents: Erosion By Design: Sea Defenses in Guyana
Dr. Sarah Vaughn (UC Berkeley, Anthropology)\nErosion by Design: Sea Defens
 es in GuyanaFriday, September 8th at 3:30pm\nin The Campus Center, Odeum A
 \&BReception to welcome the speaker to follow\nThis talk will explore the 
 intersecting socio-material and ethical demands that engineers confront in
  adapting sea defenses to climate change in Guyana. Focusing on the tensio
 ns in climate adaptation that create the possibilities for theorizing inno
 vation as a key theme of counter-modernities in the Anthropocene, this wor
 k draws on ethnographic fieldwork, oral histories, and archival research. 
 Vaughn shows how engineers’ decision-making regarding whether or not to 
 innovate sea defenses is a fraught process – dependent upon processes of
  erosion and the ontological (in)stability of specific infrastructures kno
 wn as groynes.These dilemmas remind us that issues of innovation can creat
 e paralysis and haunt even the most elite spaces of climate adaptation. Ex
 perts in climate adaptation arenas have the desire to create all kinds of 
 affective attachments with people, things, places, and environments. Vaugh
 n focuses on their desire for a different, perhaps a more hospitable kind 
 of world—shaped by their efforts to perform and demonstrate their credib
 ility to others.\n\n
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