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Location
RISD Auditorium, 7 Providence River Greenway, 17 Canal Walk, Providence, RI 02903
Event Website
https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/events/climate-futures-design-and-the-just-transition-symposium/
Start Date
9-11-2018 1:45 PM
End Date
9-11-2018 3:00 PM
Document Type
Video
Description
The concept of the just transition has its roots in the labor movement and the international labor movement has been one of the major forces pushing for the adoption of this concept in global climate negotiations. But labor is under attack across the planet--and just transitions beyond fossil capitalism will require the broadest possible alliance of social forces to move us towards a coherent vision of energy democracy. In this session, we explore the opportunities and the tensions around the call for rapid and just transitions. Can the struggles for energy democracy be expanded by thinking more carefully about the alliances that can be built between blue/white collar, green/pink collar conceptualizations of labor? What might be the theoretical and practical opportunities that exist between labor-focused just transitions and movements mobilizing around gendered labor and racial justice? Can the international labor movement become a mechanism for thinking about multi-scalar just transitions?
File Type
mp4
Run Time
1 hr 31 min 14 sec
Speakers
Moderator: Jonathan Highfield (Graduate Program Director, Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies, Rhode Island School of Design, President of RISD Faculty Association)
Speakers:
- Sean Sweeney (Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, Miller Center, City University of New York) “Labor as a Driver of the Just Transition towards Energy Democracy”
- Alyssa Battistoni (Political Science/Jacobin Magazine, Yale University) “Green Jobs, Pink Collars: Revaluing Social Reproduction for Just Transitions”
- Myles Lennon (School of Forestry, Yale University) “Beyond SolarTopia: Black Respectability and Blue-Collar Code-switching in the Shadows of Greenwashed Panaceas.”
Climate Futures 1 | Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition, Session 1: The Labor of Just transitions: Energy Democracy, Trade Unions and Blue Collar/Pink Collar/Green Collar/White Labor
RISD Auditorium, 7 Providence River Greenway, 17 Canal Walk, Providence, RI 02903
The concept of the just transition has its roots in the labor movement and the international labor movement has been one of the major forces pushing for the adoption of this concept in global climate negotiations. But labor is under attack across the planet--and just transitions beyond fossil capitalism will require the broadest possible alliance of social forces to move us towards a coherent vision of energy democracy. In this session, we explore the opportunities and the tensions around the call for rapid and just transitions. Can the struggles for energy democracy be expanded by thinking more carefully about the alliances that can be built between blue/white collar, green/pink collar conceptualizations of labor? What might be the theoretical and practical opportunities that exist between labor-focused just transitions and movements mobilizing around gendered labor and racial justice? Can the international labor movement become a mechanism for thinking about multi-scalar just transitions?
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_climatefutures/climatefutures2018/climatefutures2018symposium/3