Environmental movement responses to the polycrisis: cleavages, coalitions and interaction

Immagine: Opera di Carlo Ranfagni

Environmental movement responses to the polycrisis: cleavages, coalitions and interaction

Invited Speakers

• Niccolò Bertuzzi - Università di Parma, Italy
• Florian Carl - Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
• Daniela Chironi - Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
• Donatella della Porta - Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
• Günseli Durmaz - Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey
• André Fazi - Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, Corsica-France
• Giovannipaolo Ferrari - Università di Salerno & Université de Lille, Italy & France
• Mariana Galvão Lyra - LUT University, Finland
• Helge Hiram Abdelnoor Jensen - Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Aida Kapetanović - Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
• Hara Kouki - University of Crete, Greece
• Lisandru Laban - Sciences Po Paris, France
• Elisa Lello - Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
• Carla Mannino - Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
• Eugene Nulman - Università di Firenze, Italy
• Hayriye Özen - Izmir Economy University, Turkey
• Federica Stagni - Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

Programma

The workshop will bring together a range of insights from a variety of cases, contexts, and disciplines to better understand the internal cleavages as well as coalition strategies of contemporary environmental movements. The context in which environmental movements find themselves (and have been challenging) include several overlapping global and international crises that have their particular local impacts. This one-day workshop will provide a space for exchange and reflection on empirical and theoretical explorations to strengthen our understanding of a critical subject in a time of critical importance.

h 9:30 – 11:00 PANEL 1

International Activism in Times of Climate Change

Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore
Welcoming and Introductory Speech

Florian Carl & Federica Stagni, Scuola Normale Superiore
From the West Bank to Europe: Transnational - Reimaginings of Anti-Colonial Environmentalism

Günseli Durmaz, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University
How Funding Affects Discourses of Green Transition in Europe: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Green10

Chair: Eugene Nulman, Università di Firenze 

h 11:00 – 11:15 break

h 11:15 – 12:45 PANEL 2

The Conflicts around the Capitalist Exploitation of Renewable Energy 

Daniela Chironi & Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore
The Sky of the EU Principles and the Ground of Their Application: Contemporary LULU Movements against Industrial Wind Turbines

Hara Kouki & Giannis Vasilakis, University of Crete
Environmental Movements and Green Transitions: Mobilizations Against Renewable Energy Projects in Crete’s Hinterland

Hayriye Özen, Izmir Economy University
The Prospects of Local Mobilizations against Renewable Energy: The Aegean Case in Turkey

Chair: Carla Mannino, Scuola Normale Superiore 

h 13:00 – 14:30 lunch break

h 14:30 – 16:00 PANEL 3

Fighting Neo-colonialism in Times of Climate Change

Aida Kapetanović, Scuola Normale Superiore
Redefining Identity and Place Through River Protection Struggles in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia

Helge Hiram Abdelnoor Jensen, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Colonialism and Conservation: The Social Defense of Arctic Rivers

Niccolò Bertuzzi, Università di Parma; André Fazi, Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli; Lisandru Laban, Sciences Po Paris
From Violent Protest to Judicialization: Sixty Years of Interactions between Environmentalism and Sub-State Nationalism in Corsica

Chair: Daniela Chironi, Scuola Normale Superiore

h 16:00 – 16:15 break

h 16:15 – 17:45 PANEL 4

Reviving Old Cleavages: Rural Mobilizations in Times of Climate Change

Elisa Lello & Eduardo Barberis, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo
Environmentalism Facing the Rural Challenge: Why the Countryside is a Difficult Terrain for Eco-Climatic Movements to Take Root

Giovannipaolo Ferrari, Università di Salerno & Université de Lille
The Scanzano Model: Grassroots Resistance and Environmental Awareness in Southern Italy’s Low-Carbon Energy Context

Mariana Galvão Lyra, LUT University
Interlinkages between Movements in the Context of Local and Territory Dynamics in Brazil

Chair: Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore

h 17:45 – 18:15 Concluding Remarks

Eugene Nulman, Università di Firenze