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Memory Regimes and the Anthropocene: Tracing Causes and Responsibilities under Flood Risk Scenarios in Ancash, Peru

  • Tomás J. Usón (author)
Chapter of: Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene(pp. 47–71)

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TitleMemory Regimes and the Anthropocene
SubtitleTracing Causes and Responsibilities under Flood Risk Scenarios in Ancash, Peru
ContributorTomás J. Usón (author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightTomás J. Usón
Publishermeson press
Published on2021-03-15
Long abstractThe notion of the Anthropocene is shaped by diverse spatial and temporal scales. While this discussion settles several challenges for scholars and scientists, it also leads to intense debates on the causes and responsibilities of climatic transformations due to anthropogenic emissions. Notably, consideration of memory practices around climatic disasters may play an important role in reaching an agreement about the responsibility and liability of different parties when talking about anthropogenically-induced climate change. But it can also jeopardize the possibility of reaching a consensus, leading to irreconcilable positions between different world arrangements. In this article, I analyze two cases of flood controversies in the region of Ancash, Peru: Lake 513 and Lake Palcacocha. Both lakes pose high risks to the population downstream due to possible glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF). The diverse set of actors affected, however, reduces the capacity to reach agreements about the causes and consequences of those threats. Building on the notions of boundary objects and ontological disputes, I reflect on how difficult it is for actors with diverse ontological backgrounds and world arrangements to achieve a consensus on political climate resolutions. The article concludes by stressing the relevance of relational arenas for the interaction of different projects of world production, even if this interaction does not always lead to mutual understanding.
Page rangepp. 47–71
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Tomás J. Usón

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Tomás J. Usón is a PhD student at the Institute for European Ethnology and IRI THESys at Humboldt University of Berlin. His main research interests are in risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, urban anthropology and anthropological theory of time, memory and anticipation.