Event Title
Climate Change and the Politics of Freedom
Description
The idea of freedom contributes to climate change, as it insists that people are free to use and control natural resources however they want. This presentation will argue that different understandings of freedom, which connect humans to nature in less dominating ways, offer new possibilities for challenging climate change. It will offer wild and surprising sites for reimagining freedom today: in human guts, household dust, drought planes, and environmental pollution sites.
About the Lecturer: Elisabeth Anker is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the George Washington University. She is the author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (Duke, 2014), which was a finalist for the Lora Romero Prize for the Best First Book in American Studies. She is currently working on two books: Ugly Freedoms and The Wrath of Sovereignty.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
8-5-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
8-5-2019 1:20 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Duration
1:15:20
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental degradation--Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental ethics
Type
Moving Image
Keywords
Freedom, Politics of freedom, Climate change
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Climate Change and the Politics of Freedom
Fairhaven College Auditorium
The idea of freedom contributes to climate change, as it insists that people are free to use and control natural resources however they want. This presentation will argue that different understandings of freedom, which connect humans to nature in less dominating ways, offer new possibilities for challenging climate change. It will offer wild and surprising sites for reimagining freedom today: in human guts, household dust, drought planes, and environmental pollution sites.
About the Lecturer: Elisabeth Anker is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the George Washington University. She is the author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (Duke, 2014), which was a finalist for the Lora Romero Prize for the Best First Book in American Studies. She is currently working on two books: Ugly Freedoms and The Wrath of Sovereignty.
