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Green New Deal - Global Perspectives (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 08.04.2021 - 08.07.2021 | Online-Veranstaltung

Inhalt: In this seminar, students will engage with scholarly as well as popular and activist literature that takes up many of the issues and problems at stake in thinking the ‘Green New Deal’ from a global perspective today. In doing so, students will engage with research from the fields of the Earth sciences, economics and political economy, political science, political philosophy and theory, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as with journalistic writing, policy documents, civil society and social movement debates. INTRODUCTION & OUTLINE In 2015 in the journal “Nature”, Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin proposed the year 1610 as one of two possible starting dates for ‘the Anthropocene’, a ‘human-dominated geological epoch’ in which human activity has profoundly shaped the global environment. For many, like Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Anthropocene represents a far-less stable era than that of the Holocene, the 10,000-year period that preceded it, and in which human civilisations arose. A number of planetary boundaries that demarcate a ‘safe operating space for humanity’ have, he argues, already been crossed – including those of climate change and biodiversity loss. Lewis and Maslin’s research expressly opens the possibility of defining the Anthropocene as having been brought about by colonialism, by the development of capitalism and global trade, as well as by coal. Their work in the Earth sciences thus offers a complementary optic to that of the ‘Capitalocene’, theorized by humanities and social science scholars such as Donna Haraway and Jason Moore, as the latter has noted. ‘Defining the start of the human planet [or the Anthropocene] as the period of colonisation, the spread of deadly diseases and transatlantic slavery,’ Lewis and Maslin wrote in 2020, ‘means we can face the past and ensure we deal with its toxic legacy.’ One response to the instability and the over-stepping of planetary boundaries represented by the Anthropocene (or by the Capitalocene) has been to propose a Green New Deal. One of the first such proposals was set out in the UK in 2008 by a group of journalists, politicians, and civil society actors responding to the triple crises of energy price rises (in 2006-7), the global financial collapse (of 2007-8), and the accelerating climate crisis. It explicitly drew inspiration from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to the financial crash and Great Depression of the 1920s and ’30s, and from the economic work of John Maynard Keynes, particularly his 1936 “General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”. The proposal has since been taken up, developed, and deployed in various ways by writers like Naomi Klein, politicians on the left such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, political parties like PODEMOS in Spain and the UK’s Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, as well as by radical social movements. The Green New Deal has nevertheless also faced a number of critiques by scholars and activists on the left – Jasper Bernes has for instance argued that: ‘It thinks you can keep capitalism, keep growth, but remove the deleterious consequences’ – while others have explored both the possible synergies (as well as the tensions) between the Green New Deal and ‘de-growth’ approaches, and the possibilities for opening towards ‘post-capitalist’ futures. Critical scholarship and work by social movements has also increasingly focused on developing explicitly de-colonial and feminist framings for the Green New Deal, as well as approaches that seek to resist reproducing – and indeed, that seek to contest – existing social, geo-political, and other hierarchies. The Green New Deal is of course just one project of renewal, recovery, or radical transformation (depending on one’s perspective!) that has been proposed in response to the sustained and intersecting crises of the early 21st Century. Or rather: while the term ‘Green New Deal’ has been deployed to name a whole range of projects, there remain many other responses to these multiple crises that have not been subsumed beneath this sign. Many of these responses are also caught up with similar challenges and problems, critiques and possibilities to those of the Green New Deal: around (de-)growth and planetary boundaries; raising revenue for welfare and social spending and the perils of ‘extractivism’; the role of the state (particularly in an age of political economic globalization) and that of social movements in projects of transformation. The relationship between states and movements has been particularly fraught in the case of 21st Century progressive and leftwing governments in Latin America (many of which have engaged in considerable resource extraction) and the indigenous movements, and movements against the legacies of colonialism, that often (initially) supported them. This has in part played out in contesting the nature and the meaning of alternative models of development (and sometimes, alternatives *to* models of development), including indigenous ideas of ‘living well’ or ‘the good living’ (‘buen vivir’ in Spanish, ‘sumac kawsay’ in Quichua, ‘allin kausaw’ in Aymara). Over the course of the semester, students will critically explore these issues from an inter- and trans-disciplinary perspective.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Kulturwissenschaften - Interkulturalität und postkoloniale Theorie

Posthumane Politiken von Widerstand: Kunst, Ökologie und indigener Protest (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Anika Beckwermert

Inhalt: Anknüpfend an das Seminar „Green New Deal – Global Perspectives“ will dieser Teil des Moduls die anti-extraktivistischen und anti-siedlungskolonialen Logiken von Protest auf die ästhetischen und posthumanen Kontexte einer Aktivierung künstlerischer Praktiken und ihrer Aktivismen beziehen (vgl. J. Horton). Dabei geht es um die Verknüpfungen ökologischer, ästhetischer und pan-indigener Formen widerständigen Ausdrucks und kollektiver Praxis. Beginnend beschäftigen wir uns mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Formen indigenen landbasierten Aktivismus, wie etwa der Zapatista Bewegung in Mittelamerika, oder dem American Indian Movement in Nordamerika. Eine vertiefte Befragung anti-extraktivistischer Kämpfe und ihrer onto-epistemischen Implikationen liefern uns hierzu beispielhaft die Arbeiten Macarena Gómez-Barris' „The Extractive Zone“ und Aníbal Quijano's „Kolonialität der Macht, Eurozentrismus und Lateinamerika“. Anliegen ist zum einen die kritische Reflexion und Situierung einer indigenen Umweltethik (B. Burkhart, D. Gilio-Whitaker, T. Yunkaporta) und ihrem heutigen Ausdruck innerhalb diverser Formen von Aktivismus (L. B. Simpson, D. Miner, A. Taiaiake, G. Coulthard, N. Estes) und ökologischer Bewegungen (Buen Vivir) jenseits westlich epistemischer und praktischer Vereinnahmungen (New Age); Und zum Anderen geht es um eine dekolonial sensible Auseinandersetzung mit widerständigen Ästhetiken jenseits des Anthropozäns (J. Horton 2017; siehe auch T. Morton 2016, 2017). Das Seminar fragt deshalb im Besonderen nach den ästhetischen Formen von Widerstand einer posthuman und ethisch motivierten „Eco-Art“ (J. Horton). Entlang der Schnittstellen von Ästhetik, Politik und Aktivismus (vgl. J.T. Demons 2016, 2020) sollen derart die Verhältnisse ökologischer und künstlerischer Konzeptualisierung und Praxis innerhalb pan-indigener Kontexte von Widerstand erarbeitet werden. Im Anschluss widmen wir uns dann indigenen Künstler*Innen in Hinblick auf alternative, anti-siedlungskoloniale und anti-kapitalistische Produktionslogiken und Prozesse von Verkörperung. Dabei untersuchen wir diverse künstlerische Praktiken in Bezug auf ihre performativen und relationalen Aktivierungen der Kategorien von Land, Körper und Kollektiv (u.a. Billy Ray Belcourt, Rebecca Belmore, Tania Willard, Demian DinéYazh, Gregg Deal).

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Kulturwissenschaften - Interkulturalität und postkoloniale Theorie