“La vida sigue” (life continues) after a glacier’s disappearance: the case of Mt. Chacaltaya, Bolivia

In 2010, Mt. Chacaltaya’s glacier in Bolivia melted completely. While scientists had predicted this, Chacaltaya’s ‘dead glacier’ was received as an example of climate apocalypse. Tragic as it was, Chacaltaya’s disappearance also created new opportunities to reconfigure relations in a power-laden, lived environment. This talk by Sofía Lana (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, University of California-San Diego) disrupts the narrative that life ends after glacial melt, as well as homogenous representations of Indigenous peoples, their relationship with glaciers, and their experiences of a glacier’s demise.