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SUMMARY:The Climate Deadlock and The Unbearable Lightness of Climate Popul
 ism - Erik Swyngedouw  - Erik Swyngedouw
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DESCRIPTION:My presentation focuses on what I refer to as Climate Populism
 . We argue that climate populism is not just the prerogative of right-wing
 ed\, xenophobic\, and autocratic elite and their supporters\, but will ins
 ist on how climate populism also structures not only many radical climate 
 movements but also the liberal climate consensus. I argue that the archite
 cture of most mainstream as well as more radical climate discourses\, prac
 tices\, and policies is similar to that of populist discourses\, and shoul
 d be understood as an integral part of a pervasive and deepening process o
 f post-politicization. Mobilising a process that psychoanalysts call ‘fe
 tishistic disavowal’\, the climate discourse produces a particular form 
 of populism that obscures the power relations responsible for the growth o
 f greenhouse gas emissions. I shall mobilise a broadly Lacanian-Marxist th
 eoretical perspective that permits accounting for this apparently paradoxi
 cal condition of both acknowledging and denying the truth of the climate s
 ituation\, and the discourses/practices that sustain this.’
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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