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SUMMARY:Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism\, Extinction Rebellion and
  the transformation of global politics -  Tobias Müller\, Leverhulme Ear
 ly Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts\, Social Sciences and Hum
 anities (CRASSH)
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CONTACT:Dr Megan Brown
DESCRIPTION:Dear all\,\n\nCAS seminar will welcome Tobias Müller who wil
 l 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 abstrac
 ts of the talk below. \n\nIf you would like this seminar recorded\, please
  let us know in advance.\nWe look forward to seeing you there!\n \nBest wi
 shes\,\nMegan and Yao\n\n--------------------------\n\n\nLeverhulme Early 
 Career Fellow\nCentre for Research in the Arts\, Social Sciences and Human
 ities (CRASSH)\nThe climate crisis is deeply entangled with the politics o
 f race and colonialism. The concept of “climate colonialism”\, (Bhambr
 a and Newell 2022) urges us to analyse what forms of resistance to the soc
 io-ecological continuities of colonialism emerge\, and what challenges the
 y face. However\, we lack empirical and conceptual studies on how people o
 n 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?\n
 \nThis presentation addresses this gap through an analysis of how climate 
 activists in four different countries respond to the climate crisis and co
 nnected social justice issues. Using the case study of a transnationally o
 perating group within the global movement\, Extinction Rebellion\, the pap
 er compares strategic responses to climate colonialism in four different c
 ountries\, namely Mexico\, South Africa\, the UK and the US. Methodologica
 lly\, the paper uses multi-sited ethnography\, comprising 18 months of eth
 nographic fieldwork and 140 interviews with activists\, to gain a deep ins
 ight into the internal contentions within different parts of the movement.
 The paper advances not only our understanding of how facing climate coloni
 alism challenges movement spaces\, but also how white environmental activi
 sts struggle with building racial justice into their practices and to buil
 d coalitions across the social justice movement space. It thereby contribu
 tes to the much-needed bridging between decolonial theory\, social movemen
 t studies and the social scientific accounts of climate change.\n\n
LOCATION:Chemistry Dept\, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams
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