Paper Short Abstract:

This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing experimental multiversal projects.

Paper Abstract:

This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai shaman brings together diverse techniques, such as shamanic dreams, storytelling, Christian prayers and game playing to materialise fragile moments of what this discussion names ontological porosity between different systems of knowing-being-doing. Focusing further on the tensions that this process implies, the presentation offers reflections on the notions of protest movements and resistance in areas of enforced silence and neglect. The insights carry implications for conceptual models addressing multiversal designs, such as political ontology, and the place of shamanic thought and practice within them.