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Appendix
30 May 2023
Appendix A

Bestiary

Authors: Caroline Schuster, Enrique Bernardou, and David BuenoAuthor information and affiliations
Publication: Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
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Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Pages: 119 - 124
ISBN (Online): 978-1-4875-4225-2
ISBN (Online): 978-1-4875-4224-5
ISBN (Print): 978-1-4875-4223-8
ISBN (Print): 978-1-4875-4220-7

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Published in print: 30 May 2023
Published online: 29 October 2024

Keywords

  1. insurance
  2. weather disasters
  3. economic anthropology
  4. financialization
  5. climate change
  6. agriculture
  7. development
  8. risk management
  9. Paraguay
  10. graphic ethnography
  11. environmental anthropology
  12. fintech

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Caroline Schuster
Biography: Caroline E. Schuster is an associate professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
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Enrique Bernardou
Biography: Enrique Bernardou is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Paraguay.
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David Bueno
Biography: David Bueno is a graphic designer based in Paraguay.
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Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to confront the limitations of finance to respond to a deteriorating environment.

Taking a human-centered approach to complex weather and financial models, Forecasts offers new ways of looking at overlapping speculative futures in a more-than-human landscape. Based on more than a year of fieldwork in Paraguay, the book follows one man’s possible journeys through a season of planting and harvesting, buffeted by losses and sustained by the hope that he can cultivate conditions that will help his family thrive. Forecasts makes a sweeping account of environmental and financial risk accessible through the intimate story of one family’s triumphs, heartbreaks, and hopes for the future.

This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.

  • Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Published: April 2023
  • Pages: 232
  • epub: 9781487542252
  • pdf: 9781487542245
  • paperback: 9781487542238
  • hardcover: 9781487542207

Caroline E. Schuster is an associate professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.

Enrique Bernardou is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Paraguay.

David Bueno is a graphic designer based in Paraguay.

"With its stunning graphics, moving storytelling, and lucid unpacking of the complex financial instruments shaping the present and future of sesame farmers in Paraguay, Forecasts opens new pathways to understanding – and hopefully transcending – the climate catastrophe in which we are all entangled."

Julia Elyachar, Princeton University

"Darkly serious, wittily executed, and beguilingly illustrated, Schuster and her colleagues zero in on the predictions of those who would profit from the ongoing climate disaster and the lives of those caught up in the wake of increasingly extreme weather. Farmers come to life alongside techno-utopian entrepreneurs as we see, hear, and sense what the intertwining of climate change and finance means for remote Paraguay, and for an increasingly unimaginable planet."

Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine

"Forecasts deftly introduces readers to the visual iconography of Paraguay and the complexity of global climate finance. The book is brought together by fine storytelling, from Schuster’s writing to Bernardou and Bueno’s illustrations to the ethnographic heart of the work.. Their stories offer both humor and a robust analysis of daily life at the edge of global forces, teasing the line between possible worlds."

Christine Folch, Duke University