Join us for a presentation with Dr. Prakash Kashwan as part of the Department of Political Science's Democracy and Climate Justice Speaker Series. Dr. Kashwan is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the Heller for Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Dr. Kashwan's recent books include, Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford, 2017) and the co-edited volume Climate Justice in India (Cambridge, 2022). He is an editor at the journal Environmental Politics and co-founder of the Climate Justice Network.

Dr. Kashwan's talk will focus on the contentious politics of climate reparations. Climate reparations – the argument that industrially advanced countries must compensate the global South countries for the loss and damage they are experiencing because of the climate crisis – have gained momentum in recent years. Activists and popular media frequently equate climate reparations to the goals and strategies of climate justice. Kashwan offers a preliminary diagnosis of the reasons for and consequences of such conflation of climate reparations and justice. Drawing on interdisciplinary research on the workings of power in multi-scale institutional arrangements, Kashwan argues that loss and damage-centered climate reparations will prove grossly inadequate for the more ambitious goals of climate justice. Such a power-centric approach offers the tools necessary for realizing climate justice in a terrain pockmarked with pervasive inequalities.

 

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Location: Core Science Facility, Rm. 1203

Date and Time: Friday, Nov. 17 at 02:30 PM - 05:00 PM (NST)

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