Breathing in Asphyxiating Times

What can breath teach us about (in)justice? How does breath articulate socio-environmental suffocation? And how does breath enact possibilities of resistance, change, and radical transformation? These questions guide the keynote’s discussion of how breath entangles bodily agency with structures of social and environmental injustice and devastation. The talk addresses the interconnection of racial, colonial, and gendered forms of oppression with planetary crises such as pollution, deforestation, and climate change. At the same time, it foregrounds how breath enacts practices of resistance and transformation.