“Experimental Environmentalism: Building Anti-capitalist Alternatives” by Prof Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield)

Calendar
When:
April 18, 2016 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
2016-04-18T16:15:00+01:00
2016-04-18T17:30:00+01:00
Where:
Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Building, Room 301
Gipsy Ln
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 0BP
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Dr Doerthe Rosenow
Email
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Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society Seminar Series

Abstract: Using recent fieldwork with several international eco-communities this talk critically explores what the physical building of anti-capitalist alternatives entails. With a focus on building alternative homes and infrastructures it particularly interrogates the materiality of anti-capitalism. By examining what environmentalism in the everyday and anti-capitalism in practice means we can better understand the potential for living and building differently.

Prof Jenny Pickerill is Professor in Environmental Geography at the University of Sheffield. She specialises in environmentalism. Her latest book Eco-Homes: People, Place and Politics has just been published by Zed Books.