Planetary Uprising: Extinction Rebellion and The Political Thought of the Climate Crisis

Speaker: Tobias Müller, CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Tobias Müller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include political and social theory, the politics of climate change, secularism and Islam in Europe and decolonial and feminist theory. He is Principal Investigator of the project ‘Democratic Futures: Climate change, coloniality and the state’, which explores the epistemic, spiritual, intersectional, decolonial and reparationist dimensions of the emerging planetary politics.

About this workshop

The global climate movement has been one of the most influential actors shaping how we think about the climate crisis. However, we know little about the political thought animating the movement, what theories of change are developed by those at the front lines of climate mobilisation and how their thinking travels across the globe. Based on extensive fieldwork with Extinction Rebellion in Mexico, South Africa, the UK and the US, Tobias will trace how the ideas of the movement have spread, how they have transformed in different local contexts and how activists on the ground develop new visions of politics at the intersections of colonialism, capitalism and the planetary catastrophe.

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