Roundtable | SSEALS
Roundtable: Environmental Crises
- Date
- Friday 22 November 2024
- Time
- Serie
- Research Colloquium: SSEALS (2024)
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.47
Roundtable
In the next SSEALS instalment, academics working within the environmental humanities and social sciences will engage in conversation with environmental activists and politicians to discuss current environmental crises in critical perspective: We live in a world in crises but what are the root drivers of climate change? How can we better understand what is happening in context? What are the underlining relations and systems perpetuating current environmental crises? From pollution, waste, deforestation, biodiversity loss to natural disasters, many have sustained that environmental justice can only be achieved hand-in-hand with social justice. As trade unionist and environmentalist Chico Mendez puts it “Environmentalism without class struggle is gardening.” At the same time, many have centred the importance and relevance of interspecies justice moving beyond merely anthropocentric or biocentric perspectives to climate change. This roundtable gathers experts engaging in environmental research, activism and policy making to articulate collaborative and contextualised ways to approach the possibility of resistance and the slowing down of global warming.
Speakers
- Dr. Lakshmi Pradeep Rajeswary, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
- Dr. Elena Burgos Martinez, Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics and Humanities, Leiden University.
- Mr. Vincent Thepass, Gemeenteraadslid GroenLinks, Den Haag.
- Ms. Mia Tengco, Activist.
- Moderated by Dr. Sanjukta Poddar (LIAS, Leiden University).
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