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Speaker

Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University

Title

"The Climate Negotiations and the Gift from the Global South"

Abstract

With a focus on Bangladesh in the UN led global climate negotiations, this paper aims to elucidate how the Global South is positioned within the process. While the many internal divisions within the countries constituting the South makes difficult any coherent or unified position, this talk highlights the evolution of the issue of loss and damage within the process.  I end by suggesting that the idea of loss and damage constitutes a kind of inter-generational gift from the Global South.

Biography

Naveeda Khan is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology. She received her BA in History from Vassar College, her MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research and her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. She has also worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dhaka and Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Travelers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago (TIA) and The Field Museum of Natural History.