RUSSIA TEAM

Cosmological Visionaries (COSMOVIS) explores what global environmental initiatives of the future will look like, by asking: (1) How can scientists, shamans, priests, and other indigenous holders of animistic knowledge collaborate in regions of climatic vulnerability and (2) What are the geopolitics of climate change?... Starting from the position that cosmology often evokes religious ways of knowing or being, the project brings together anthropologists, ethnologists, historians and philosophers of science and ethics, religious studies experts, space and satellite researchers, indigenous leaders and environmental scientists to examine how climate change is managed at the ethnic borderlands of China and Russia. Our project is an academic and a practical exploration driven by two research teams - the Russia Team and the China Team - with a fourfold methodology... Firstly, we will uncover the scientific and indigenous views on climate change in Siberia and Southwest China. Secondly, we..