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SUMMARY:Deadly Truths and Lively Tensions: Saving Nature in the Era of Pos
 t-Truth and Platform Capitalism - Bram Büscher\, Professor and Chair of t
 he Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University
DTSTART:20181211T130000Z
DTEND:20181211T140000Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Goodman
DESCRIPTION:The post-truth conundrum presents an acute challenge to enviro
 nmental conservation: how to share environmental facts in an era where the
  value of truth is questioned like never before? The answer\, for many con
 servationists\, is to share the truth about nature more vigorously than ev
 er before\, especially through new media platforms. In this paper I follow
  them as they they creatively struggle to do so. By developing an understa
 nding of post-truth as an expression of power under platform capitalism\, 
 I argue this this strategy is contradictory\, even deadly\, but harbors li
 vely theoretical tensions that deserve unpacking. Doing so not only has im
 portant implications for understanding nature-culture dualism\, agency and
  ‘saving’ nature\, it implores us to reconsider the importance of sear
 ching for truth as part of our ecological politics. I conclude by arguing 
 for a conceptual move towards ‘dialectical entanglements’ in order to 
 move beyond problematic tendencies in much theory in nature-society geogra
 phy\, political ecology and beyond.\n\nBram Büscher is Professor and Chai
 r of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen Universit
 y\, The Netherlands and holds visiting positions at the Department of Geog
 raphy\, Environmental Management and Energy Studies of the University of J
 ohannesburg and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Ste
 llenbosch University\, in South Africa. Between 2008 and 2015\, he was Ass
 ociate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institu
 te of Social Studies\, Erasmus University\, the Netherlands. \n\nbrambusch
 er.com
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Geography Department\, Cambridge
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