Live podcast
With Abbéy Odunlami, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley and Isaiah Lopez

The transformations of the Anthropocene amplify the world’s inequalities. The methods and practices which permitted developed countries to industrialize and get wealthy have produced emissions which contribute to the climate changes that disproportionately harm the most impoverished populations.

While most future climate migrants are likely headed to Europe, the EU still lacks a discerning migrant policy. Abbéy Odunlami’s podcast series brings together researchers, politicians and activists to grasp the role of Europe as a political agent and a geographical destination in future climates.

In this episode, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, a former policy advisor in the European Commission’s Division of Disaster and Crisis Management, talks about her work serving at the International and External Relations Directorate, where she managed an area of policy dealing with climate migration. Burnley discusses her current role as a cultural worker interrogating the buzzword “refugees welcome,” how arts, culture and symbolic gestures are practiced and whether they contribute to significant change or merely apathetic participation.

The event will be streamed via The Shape of a Practice online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org