On 2 December 2024, the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change and Mórula Editorial celebrated the launch of the book Da pandemia à mudança climática (From pandemic to climate change), the inaugural volume of our Climate Emergency Collection written by Prof. José Maurício Domingues. To honour such a special moment, we held a panel discussion between the author, Prof Elza Neffa, a member of the OIMC’s Strategic Comitee, and our coordinator, Prof Carlos R. S. Milani, at our headquarters in the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ).
During the event, the Observatory’s team of researchers were able to talk about the themes addressed in Prof Domingues’ work and about the future plans for the collection, as well as exchanging perspectives on our research agenda with the interested public present. Developed by OIMC in partnership with the publisher, the Climate Emergency Collection aims to publicise a research agenda aimed at understanding climate change from the perspective of the social and human sciences, building dialogues between social and political actors, mobilising different generations and disseminating proposals for debates within universities, governments and civil society.
The latest IPCC communication (2021) reinforced that the recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid, intensified and unprecedented. The question is: how does climate change affect us and alter the order of society and politics? Living in suicidal modernity, guided by capitalism, the black box of traditional political issues is reopening. This leads to the need to overcome neoliberalism and practise new forms of transnational responsibility.
Understanding the social and political dimensions of these transformations is fundamental to developing strategies to deal with their impacts. This book is dedicated to just that.
