Climate and Care During Pakistani Floods

Climate change is leading to environmental crises and human calamity. In September this year, Pakistan was hit with extreme flooding due to rapidly melting glaciers. With 95,000 square meters of land submerged under water, and 33 million directly affected, the country is literally, and not only metaphorically ‘in deep waters’. The rescue and rehabilitation work post-floods is a mammoth task. In this podcast bring together grass roots civil society activists from the areas, most affected by the floods, to tell us about the impact of the floods and the challenges on the ground. Please join in to understand the impact of climate change related crisis and how they affect people’s lives.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/podcasts/takhayyul-nativess-and-emergent-issues-podcast/transcript-climate-and-care-during-pakistani 

Date of episode recording: 2022-11-13
Duration: 01:22:50
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Dr. Sumrin Kalia
Guests: Quratulain Bakhteari; Balach Khan Khoso; Ali Anwar Qureshi; Habib Mazari; Mahwish Chaudry.
Producer: Meryem Zişan Köker, Hazal Aydın, Sertaç Sehlikoglu. Editor: Meryem Zişan Köker, Hazal Aydın

What is Takhayyul Nativeness and Emergent Issues Podcast Series?

The Institute for Global Prosperity's ERC Project Takhayyul is carried out in eleven different countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, often included in the concept of the Global South, where people are more vulnerable to global changes and crises - as we have seen in the flood catastrophe in Pakistan. Many members of our team are scholars who have expertise in the geographies they grew up in. This series has been emerged due to the pressing issues that have been taking place in the contexts we work on and care about. The urgent need to create a platform where we can address the emergent issues as they happen, to channel our intellectual and academic expertise, combined with the deep care to the events taking place has prompted this podcast series.