Intermedia Research Studio (in partnership with Climate Action @UofA)
The Studio is delighted to announce this call for two climate justice action oriented reading groups we will be convening this Winter 2024 semester. Read both or either of these books at your leisure in the months ahead and then join us on February 8th 1-3pm and on March 7th 1-3pm at the Senate Chamber to discuss these books. (Space is limited, kindly sign up on the registration form via links below).
Ajl, M. (2021). A People’s Green New Deal. Pluto Press.
This book addresses key issues that are largely missing from most discussions of climate action and green new deals in North America: the perspectives of the Global South. In this regard, this book is a crucial intervention in Canadian debates regarding green new deal proposals as it helps us understand “so-called Canada’s” integration in neo-colonial political economies and political ecologies.
Publisher’s Blurb
In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to decommodification, working-class power, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology.
Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. Resolving this crisis, he argues, requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North, and the industrial convergence between North and South. As the climate crisis deepens and the literature on the subject grows, A People's Green New Deal contributes a distinctive perspective to the debate.
This book is available to download through the Open Access programme: https://library.oapen.org/handle/ 20.500.12657/48775
Or access through UofA Library:
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Reading Group Seminar: March 7th 2024, 1-3pm Senate Chamber, Convocation Hall
(limited seating kindly register via this link)