Event Description

How does one grieve from the loss of irreplaceable? What is the price of cultural extinction?  Does loss mean the same thing in every culture? The connections between loss and damage, and culture and heritage, are transversal, complex – and too often missing for the loss and damage conversation.   

Culture and heritage along with Indigenous and local knowledge systems are increasingly vulnerable to loss from both slow and rapid onset hazards (and also sometimes maladaptation and mal-mitigation). Migration and relocation bring cultural loss, whether as part of managed retreat or disaster-driven displacement. The results can be devastating, especially for vulnerable communities, unraveling connections, lifeways, livelihoods, and more. Culture also mediates recognition of, and response to, other forms of loss, underscoring the culturally contingent nature of the topic

Venue

Hybrid - Blue Zone, Resilience Hub

Organisers

Climate Heritage Network, Gullah Geechee Nation, City of San Antonio, Climate Justice & Just Transition Donor Collaborative, National Trust, State of California