Every first Wednesday of the month the Climate Justice Research Centre members, interested participants, and higher degree research students gather at UTS.
We engage in critical exchange surrounding climate justice. We choose articles and book chapters that dealt with injustices of climate change in the nexus of the science of climate change and the politics of climate change. This is a crucial space for debate and dialogue leading to a series of questions for our chosen author/s. We invite authors or experts (over Zoom, Skype or telephone) to tackle any unresolved issues in the reading group about their works. We then share it here.
Recent episodes
Public Lecture: The Global and the Planetary
Public Lecture with Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'The Global and the Planetary: The Great Divergence of the Anthropocene' Dipesh Chakrabarty holds a BSc (physics honours) degree from Presidency College, University of Calcutta, a postgraduate Diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a PhD (history) from the Australian National University. He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, at the University of Chicago. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry, a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies, and has served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and Public Culture.
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Globalisation and the Populist Explosion: the Significance of Ideology
By Manfred B. Steger, University of Hawai’i-Manoa. The current explosion of right-wing national-populism is intricately connected to shifting perceptions of ‘globalisation’ in the world. I contend that a return to the once dominant but now frequently criticized ideational approach to the study of populism as ‘ideology’ or ‘discourse’ can provide insightful, if incomplete, explanations of the current populist moment. After a brief opening overview of some influential conceptual perspectives on populism, the presentation offers an appraisal of some major criticisms levelled against the ideological paradigm by advocates of competing approaches.
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Debating race: domestication as domination?
Professor Ghassan Hage is in conversation with Dr Jonathan Marshall and Dr Jahnnabi Das about his book titled "Is racism an environmental threat?" He is explaining the deep relations between ecological and racism and their dependence on each other drawing on domestication, ungovernability and different modes of existence.
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Is new always the best?
In this episode Dr Karen Bell author of “Achieving Environmental Justice: A cross-national analysis” reflecting on the challenges of environmental justice across global north and south.
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What happens to flowers?
In this episode Vijay Prashad, Indian historian and editor of the book "Will the Flower Slip Through Asphalt: Writers Respond to Climate Change" tackles some crucial issues such as energy, transport, waste and consumption.
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Can we slow down climate change?
Dr Joel Wainwright was one of the authors of the book ‘Climate Leviathan: A political theory of Our Planetary Future,” explaining climate future to Dr Ben Abraham.