Climate Movements Struggle, with Joost de Moor

What do social movements have to say about climate change? What is their role in local and global governance of climate change? How do climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a postapocalyptic present? Some people say individual changes are needed, while others think it should come from systemic change. How does the climate movement reconcile both? 

Answers by Joost de Moor, a researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, who has been working on these issues for years.

Additional Resources

• Joost de Moor, Jens Marquardt, Deciding whether it’s too late: How climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a postapocalyptic present, Geoforum, 2023
• Joost de Moor, Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities, Environmental Politics, 2022
• Joost de Moor, The ‘efficacy dilemma’ of transnational climate activism: the case of COP21’, Environmental Politics, 2018
• Joost de Moor, Michiel De Vydt, Katrin Uba, et al. ‘New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism ’, Social Movement Studies. 2020

Recorded on 20 April 2023 

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