Max Ajl: The Politics of Climate Action
Lezing / Debat
As the urgency of the climate crisis becomes more apparent, many have been advocating for policy alternatives to the business as usual approach. Using the ongoing planetary crisis as a moment for all out transformation, all over the world, variants of the Green New Deal have emerged – drawing together policy actions to combat the climate crisis in addition to tackling economic inequality.
On Thursday 29 August, we welcome agrarian sociologist Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New Deal to discuss how the various green transition movements can not only tell us about where we are, but what we need to do in order to bring about actionable policy change. Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. Resolving this crisis, he argues, requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North, and the industrial convergence between North and South.
In this event, a collaboration with the 11th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) Nature of Hope, Max Ajl will give a lecture on what we can and must do in order to mobilise not only against climate change, but also towards a more hopeful and just future.
Visitors of this years’ International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) – Nature of Hope can access this event for the reduced price of €6,- (choose Reduction Ticket in our ticketshop).