Alexander Karvelas

Alexander Karvelas is a PhD student in the ethnomusicology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Chumash territory. He is also participating in an interdisciplinary emphasis in Environmental Studies. His identities as a musician, environmental justice activist, and scholar converge around the importance of listening to other modes of expression and understanding the potential for radical individual and collective change through those listening practices.

California fires

Thinking through Fire: Climate Solidarity and Multispecies Regeneration

Having acknowledged these connections, what steps can we take, as scholars, activists, and humans, to cultivate those connections in ways that empower more-than-human beings and ourselves in our collective struggle for Climate X? What does it look/sound/feel like to build climate solidarity beyond the boundaries of the human species? It’s time to find out.

January 30, 2020