The Climate of Infrastructure: Desiccation and Dispossession of Littoral Worlds
A Public Lecture by Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania)
06.05.2025 12:30 – 14:00
Location: event room, ground floor, Philologicum, Ludwigstraße 25, 80539 Munich
Introduction by Anne Rademacher
In this talk, Nikhil Anand, an environmental anthropologist at University of Pennsylvania, will draw attention to the ways that Indigenous Koli fishers in Mumbai read climate change as the outcome of a centuries-long process of intervening in, and “improving” the city with the infrastructures of desiccation. He will show how these civilizational projects constitute the climate of infrastructure. Staged on extant ecologies and polities, these durable forms of city making also make its climate—projects which not only continue to dispossess Indigenous fishers, fish, and ecologies, but also intensify chronic flooding in the city.
The event is open to everyone. No registration necessary. Please also see the below poster.