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Location
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Event Website
https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/events/climate-futures-ii
Start Date
5-12-2019 4:00 PM
End Date
5-12-2019 5:30 PM
Document Type
Video
Description
The prospect that climate conditions may have reached a point of no return has now become a recurring motif of assorted climate doomsters who seem to delight in telling working and marginalized people that “their goose is cooked.” This is a politics that the Green New Deal clearly has to face down. An ecology of panic at best is going to feed “passive nihilism” (Connolly, 2016) and “melancholic paralysis” (Wark, 2015) but in addition it could feed the rise of eco-fascism and eco-apartheid. In this concluding session, we consider the extent to which a politics of a Green New Deal framed around the need for environmentally just investment and infrastructure, a fundamental reworking of class, race and gender relations, new modes of democratic planning and approaches to global politics focused on a new internationalism and solidarity across borders could open up very different paths.
Sponsored by The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance and The Institute for Environment and Society, Brown University
File Type
mp4
Run Time
1 hr 55 min 33 sec
Speakers
Chair: Timmons Roberts (Brown University)
Speakers:
- Kian Goh (Urban Planning Department, University of California Los Angeles) “Planning the Green New Deal: Climate Justice and the Politics of Sites and Scales”
- Dan Traficonte (Urban Studies + Planning Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Ian Wells “An Innovation Policy for the Green New Deal”
- Alyssa Battistoni (Harvard College) “Cyborg Ecosocialism + Gendered Labor + the Green New Deal”
- Thea Riofrancos (Political Science Department, Providence College) “A Globally Just Green New Deal”
Discussants:
- Camilo Viveiros (George Wiley Center)
- Emma Bouton and Estrella Rodriguez (Sunrise)
Climate Futures 2 | Design Politics, Design Natures, Aesthetics and the Green New Deal, Session 5: Thinking Beyond the Ecology of Panic: The Political Opportunity of the Green New Deal
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
The prospect that climate conditions may have reached a point of no return has now become a recurring motif of assorted climate doomsters who seem to delight in telling working and marginalized people that “their goose is cooked.” This is a politics that the Green New Deal clearly has to face down. An ecology of panic at best is going to feed “passive nihilism” (Connolly, 2016) and “melancholic paralysis” (Wark, 2015) but in addition it could feed the rise of eco-fascism and eco-apartheid. In this concluding session, we consider the extent to which a politics of a Green New Deal framed around the need for environmentally just investment and infrastructure, a fundamental reworking of class, race and gender relations, new modes of democratic planning and approaches to global politics focused on a new internationalism and solidarity across borders could open up very different paths.
Sponsored by The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance and The Institute for Environment and Society, Brown University
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_climatefutures/climatefutures2019/climatefutures2019symposium/6