Climate EmergencyCollection
Climate change has become one of the most widely debated issues in recent years, with serious implications for the definition of the role of the state and the different sectors and social agents. The debates surrounding the phenomenon often start from the assumption that it will be essential to reinvent ourselves as a society and civilisation, to rethink economic and political models in order to deal with the crisis. But it is equally necessary to address the short and medium term issues within the framework of contemporary civilisation, with viable and fair programmes for climate adaptation, energy transition and socio-ecological transformation.
Developed by the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change in partnership with Mórula Editorial, this 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 report (2021) reinforced that recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid, intensified and unprecedented. The question posed is: how does climate change affect us and alter the order of society and politics? Living in suicidal modernity, driven 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 precisely that.
Its first three chapters focus on the coronavirus pandemic, always from the perspective of a broadly conceived critical social theory. The following three chapters focus on climate change, theoretically tackling the question of ‘nature’ in modernity, its relationship with politics and how this leads to the climate issue.