How Do We Solve a Problem Like Climate Change?

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Climate change is clearly a problem. But how should we conceptualize it and—more importantly—how do we address it? These four papers take up this question, providing four distinctive approaches and answers. Drawing from resources from Rousseau to Paul of Tarsus, and suggesting strategies like coercion and occupation, this panel is a timely intervention into discussions around this environmental crisis.

Sub Unit

• Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Cosponsor

• Related Groups / Environmental Politics and Theory

Individual Presentations

• ‘A Fruit of Every Clime’? Rousseau’s Environmental Politics - Rebecca Aili Ploof, Leiden University

• Effective Disoccupation - Alejandra Mancilla, University of Oslo

• From the Common State: John Locke on Climate Change - Christopher R. Hallenbrook, California State University Dominguez Hills; Ryan Reed, Bradley University

• Lose the Whole Earth: A Planetary Politics Toward the Future - Char Roone Miller, George Mason University

Discussant

• Elisabeth H. Ellis University of Otago