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Untangling the Mess: The Promise and Peril of Eco-Progressive Politics

Sun, October 3, 2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT), TBA

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

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This panel brings together papers examining the promise and peril of various strategies for a progressive environmental politics. In light of the devastation and death wrought by climate change, Sean Parson attempts to theorize a radical, democratic, and egalitarian Necropolitics that overcomes current systems of inequality while avoiding both neo-Malthusianism and eco-fascism. For Parson, the alternative is a politics of death that targets the same populations that have already borne the brunt of capitalist violence. Andy Scerri turns to Machavelli’s “republican realism” to argue that green republican citizenship requires not just the positive promotion of environmentalist virtues but the negative activity of curtailing the impunity enjoyed by wealthy minorities whose actions threaten to dominate the democratic majority. John Meyer explores the relationship between populism and climate change by focusing on the meaning of “cosmopolitanism” as the signifier of what populists oppose. What does cosmopolitanism mean to left- and right-populists when they attack it, Meyer asks, and what might this tell us about both the possibilities and dangers of populism? Finally, Timothy Luke examines the dominant pluralist model of environmental advocacy and technocratic management by well-connected interest groups, asking whether this approach has really succeeded in protecting the environment as well as whether interest group technocracy has become the managerial architecture of the Anthropocene.

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