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Book launch: Forecasts, a Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster

05 December 2023, 4:30 pm–6:30 pm

Book cover for Caroline E. Schuster's 'Forecasts'

The 鶹ýƵվ Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome Caroline E. Schuster to launch her new book 'Forecasts, a Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster'.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All | 鶹ýƵվ staff | 鶹ýƵվ students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Institute of Advanced Studies

Location

IAS Forum
G17, ground floor, South Wing
鶹ýƵվ, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Caroline E. Schuster's 'Forecasts: a Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster'

This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life. Taking a human-centered approach to complex weather and financial models, Forecasts offers new ways of looking at overlapping speculative futures in a more-than-human landscape. Based on more than a year of fieldwork in Paraguay, the book follows one man's possible journeys through a season of planting and harvesting, buffeted by losses and sustained by the hope that he can cultivate conditions that will help his family thrive. Forecasts makes a sweeping account of environmental and financial risk accessible through the intimate story of one family's triumphs, heartbreaks, and hopes for the future.

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The 鶹ýƵվ Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together 鶹ýƵվ faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.

About the Speaker

Caroline Schuster

Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies ANCLAS at School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University

Her research agenda asks: how and under what conditions are people collectively obligated in everyday economic practice? What value systems compel people to knit and ravel these economic interdependencies, and with what effects? Insurance is an obvious outgrowth from my research on microcredit “social collateral” and collective indebtedness, since insurance explicitly aims to pool and spread risk while transferring liability.