Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism, Extinction Rebellion and the transformation of global politics

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• Tobias Müller, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
• Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:00-12:00
• Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Megan Brown.

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Dear all,

CAS seminar will welcome Tobias Müller who will give us a talk on climate colonialism. The talk will be held in a hybrid format with the speaker in-person at the Unilever lecture theatre and on Zoom on Tuesday, the 4th February , 11 AM-12 PM. Please find the abstracts of the talk below.

If you would like this seminar recorded, please let us know in advance. We look forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes, Megan and Yao

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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) The climate crisis is deeply entangled with the politics of race and colonialism. The concept of “climate colonialism”, (Bhambra and Newell 2022) urges us to analyse what forms of resistance to the socio-ecological continuities of colonialism emerge, and what challenges they face. However, we lack empirical and conceptual studies on how people on the ground confront the intersection of the climate crisis, colonialism, racism and extractivism, and how this differs across former coloniser and colonised countries. This raises the question, what kind of politics are able to confront the intersecting crises of climate and colonialism?

This presentation addresses this gap through an analysis of how climate activists in four different countries respond to the climate crisis and connected social justice issues. Using the case study of a transnationally operating group within the global movement, Extinction Rebellion, the paper compares strategic responses to climate colonialism in four different countries, namely Mexico, South Africa, the UK and the US. Methodologically, the paper uses multi-sited ethnography, comprising 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 140 interviews with activists, to gain a deep insight into the internal contentions within different parts of the movement.The paper advances not only our understanding of how facing climate colonialism challenges movement spaces, but also how white environmental activists struggle with building racial justice into their practices and to build coalitions across the social justice movement space. It thereby contributes to the much-needed bridging between decolonial theory, social movement studies and the social scientific accounts of climate change.

This talk is part of the Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept. series.

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