'Climate Apartheid': provocation or reality?

Abstract  

This seminar maps an important political tension arising in relation to academic debates about 'climate apartheid'. 'Climate apartheid' is surfacing as a key term in political discussions on climate justice. It broadly designates the way the separation of populations, or the prospect of such separation, is emerging as a formative political technology within the climate change political imaginary. The aim of the seminar is to stage a conversation between normative and poststructural approaches to conceptualising 'climate apartheid' in order to raise new questions about the value 'climate apartheid' adds to wider discussions about climate justice, as well other formations of apartheid, for example, global apartheid, neoliberal apartheid. The presumption is that the meaning of 'climate apartheid' is as yet unsettled, that much of the scholarly debate turns on the myriad assumptions embedded within the term, and that interdisciplinary dialogue is necessary in order to elaborate the real and imagined dimensions of this term whose political value is only expected to gather pace. 

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