CT302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Propylthiouracil, Populism, Counterhegemony
Document Summary
Swygedouw sees climate change discourse as contributing to the post- political and post-democratic condition. Post-political/post-democratic condition means no change of climate change contributing to re-politicization klein is asking for (anti- capitalism) Politics about freedom, antagonism, joy and acting in public in order to bring something new into the world- in times of crisis and goals of mere survival (there is no room for this) The rhetoric of crisis, the end of the world can lead us to thinking we have to give up everything to survive. We need to reprioritize/rethink what we want and what has to be done. We do have the capacity to do what klein is talking about. Democracy is contestable and also a critical concept. It is never something we have, its something we strive towards, most. Just a passive vote is a bare minimum thing to do dangerous times is when there"s no resistance and critique.
