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It argues that urgency is not a simple “fact,” but a social construct enacted through practices that combine scientific expertise and lived experiences. 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A. , Iatarola, B. , Manda, A. K. , & Etheridge, J.  \nR. (2019) . Eco-Ethnography and Citizen Science: Lessons from Within. Society & Natural Resources, 32(10), 1123–1138.  \n[https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1584343](https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1584343)  \n• EASA conference (July 2026)– double panel  \nPreliminary findings  \nDouble panel:  \nUnderstanding Urgency in Climate Action: Reframing Time, Power, and Justice  \n(and writing workshop in February 2025, Uppsala Sweden)  \nin preparation: edited book volume on ”a gobal anthropology of climate urgency”  \n 1. Amidst multiple temporalities  \n• Climate itself is a process, with its own timeline,  \n• co-shaped by seasonal rhythms (rains, harvests), infrastructural schedules (power cuts, water deliveries), bureaucratic calendars (budget cycles, election years), and ritual organizations  \n=> Tito Muhindo Kakundika (fishing camps and villages along the Congo River):  \ntemperature, moon position, frequency of rains, migratory birds  \n(minyenyengi), abundance of certain species of fish (makoko and  \nmbesi), cries of crocodiles and hippopotamuses, etc. provide  \ninformation on the evolution of the weather  \nallows citizens to imagine action, and eventually to influence (and  \nalter) the direction and pace of climate processes  \n• urgency is chronopolitical—enacted and interpreted in an arena of power and struggle, where actors try to define whose time counts and which tempos govern (see also Saddington 2025)  \n⇒Amber Caine – Nairobi (Kenya):  \nKenya’s national tree planting days on 13 November 2023 and 11 May 2024 were presented to the Kenyan public as a response to climate urgency. They were widely publicized across social and news media, yet were also criticized for what was seen as a hurried, often performative, approach, and contrast with the “enduring care” method of volunteer conservationists .  \nDelay does not always mean absence of urgency but sometimes it is a mode of managing risk and navigating obligations amidst pressure.  \n2. Discourses and aesthetics  \n• Urgency is articulated along specific discursive and aesthetic forms,“sensational forms”(Meyer 2009), which combine aesthetics and ethics, and around which publics convene  \n• Metaphors (“tipping points”), framings (“climate emergency”), images (burning forests, cracked earth), and genres (documentaries, protest art, viral posts) generate calibrate attention and affect  \n⇒ Luisa Mohr, post-industrial Sicily  \nurgency is shaped through different narratives: for the industry and workers, urgency is about preventing economic collapse and job loss; for environmental organizations, it is about addressing longstanding pollution and the need for a radical shi","cbCaiacnaMREQuay","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiacnaMREQuay","pdf",1667175,15,"English","# When and on what grounds urgency arises\n# Urgency in times of climate crisis\n## A felt, declared, or measured imperative\n## Urgency as a social construct and practice\n## Importance of ethnography\n# Methods\n## Eco-ethnography\n## Preliminary findings\n# Preliminary findings\n## 1. 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