IBS Speaker Series: Jamie Haverkamp

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.
*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP.

Title: Resisting Climate Coloniality in the Andes: Towards Care-based Adaptation

Abstract: TBD

Bio: Dr. Jamie Haverkamp (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. She is also an Affiliate with the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU Boulder for 2024-2025. Broadly, her research seeks to better understand the ethical and political dimensions of climate resilient development and adaptation planning (in various project forms). Haverkamp’s research agenda centers an anti-colonial, care-based, and participatory praxis to working with and for frontline climate justice communities. Her work often engages with a variety of critical approaches and theories including political ecology, environmental and climate justice, racial capitalism, post-/de-colonial thought, and abolitionist, feminist and Indigenous studies in order to understand the mechanisms that condition vulnerability and possibilities for just climate adaptation. Haverkamp’s current research program is grounded primarily within Latinx and Indigenous contexts and includes: (1) long-standing ethnographic and participatory research with agropastoralists of the Peruvian Andes who are adapting to rapid glacier melt; (2) ethnographic engagement within the UNFCCC process, specifically with the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP); and (3) new research on care-based climate adaptation among Latinx farmworkers in the western U.S. Haverkamp’s regional expertise are in Latin America and the United States, and she holds degrees in anthropology, human geography, and visual journalism.