Climate, Capital and Democracy
Seminar
This seminar, coorganised with the Center for Transcultural Studies, the Center for Studies on Planetary Wellbeing (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Copenhaguen University, brings together scholars and thinkers to reflect on the challenges of democracy in front of inequity and the ecosocial crisis.
Climate, Capital, and Democracy in the Anthopocene
Mukulika Banerjee, Lars Tønder and Miguel de Beistegui
Does the current condition of the Anthropocene have a historical and philosophical specificity? This panel focuses on a key issue – the climate crises of the Anthropocene – from the perspective of philosophy, political theory, and the social sciences.
Imagining and Transforming Nature: Ecology, Far-Right, and Capital
Steven Forti, Alexandra Popartan
In this panel, we examine the new discursive practices and strategies being used by the far-right in continental Europe, where groups are appropriating debates related to the environmental crisis and offering fictitious “salvationist” solutions.
Imagining and Transforming Nature: Ecology, Far-Right, and Capital
Nausikaä El-Mecky , Marc Sanjaume and Sofia Tipaldou
Art experts, social and political scientists, and philosophers reflect on the rise of reactionary positions from the standpoint of the environmental crisis.
Rethinking the Social Question
Sofia Näsström / Craig Calhoun and Dilip Gaonkar
The current crisis situation cannot be properly understood without examining the social question, nor can its treatment be reduced to just a political problem or an issue of economic growth. This panel brings together thinkers who have reflected, from a multidisciplinary perspective, on the ...