- Professor
- Date
- Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00 - 17:30
- Type
- Inaugural lecture
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On 16 May 2019, Professor Murat Arsel will give his inaugural lecture entitled 'Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene'.
This event will be broadcast live via ISS LivestreamCan the fight against climate change create a common front between the rich and the poor? Or will it deepen the chasm between them since their interests are fundamentally irreconcilable?
By engaging with these questions, this inaugural lecture will discuss the utility of class analysis for understanding the nature of climate activism.
Murat Arsel appointed Professor of Political Economy of Sustainable Development on 1 September 2018 by the Erasmus University Rotterdam Executive Board. He teaches in the Development Studies MA programme at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and is Research Group Coordinator of the Political Ecology Research Group.
His research is concerned with the possibility of achieving emancipatory yet ecologically sustainable socioeconomic development within the context of global capitalism. The focus is specifically on social conflicts – which Arsel conceives of as inevitable yet unpredictable – in sites where nature and natural resources are being extracted or mobilized in the name of rapid industrial development.
The laudatio will be given by Professor Fikret Adaman.