{"id":4911,"date":"2025-05-06T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicalecology-ljubljana.si\/?page_id=4911"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:18:33","slug":"program-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.politicalecology-ljubljana.si\/en\/program-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Program 2025 – International Summer School of Political Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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ANDREJ LUK\u0160I\u010c: Democracy from yelling to dialogue <\/strong><\/p>

BO\u0160TJAN REMIC: From inequality to strategy through political ecology<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ecosocialism Agains the Crisis of Capitalism<\/strong><\/p>

Today\u2019s economic and ecological crises are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning system but integral to its operation. It is naive to see these upheavals as opportunities for reform or revolution. They are the bedrock of the status quo. Fortunately, the vicious circle sustaining capitalism is not founded on an iron law. Our historical mission in the face of the climate crisis is to create a historical exception to the rule. Capitalism produces crises and crises reproduce capitalism. We need an ecosocialist way out.<\/p>

This lecture will present a framework for understanding the crises of capitalism and offer reflections on what an ecosocialist response to the climate crisis could be: why we must begin with the assumption that crises themselves do not work to our advantage, how stark binaries between socialist eco-modernism and degrowth obscure necessary complexity, and how climate activism is (most often) class struggle.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Reproduction of social relationships as orientation framework for ecologic strategies and tactics<\/strong><\/p>

In Trump\u2019s world of high uncertainty we should not bind ecologic movements whose objective is de-growth to Green transition as immediate concern. Long-term strategies and tactics are necessary, taking into account multi-level complexity of social processes of environment transformation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Reproduction of social relationships \/RSR\/ is hereby treated as an ensemble of intertwined processes of preservation\/transformation of environment and of social relations on levels from personal across local and state level to global; everywhere as social (cultural, political) as well as biological in character. These processes are spatialized differently on different levels (e.g. concentrated vs. dispersed). Its temporal modes also differ (e.g. singularity vs. repeatability, different intensity).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Ecological weight of a social practice is more than a sum of its individual carbon (or digital) footprints. On different spatial levels it has different economic implications; on each level its dependence on political framework, group identities and cultural patterns is different; on each level modes of communication are different. Considered on the plane of someone\u2019s Lebenswelt, its physical conditions and biological consequences in space and time are different to when mediated impact of her\/his social bonds on biotic and abiotic ecological process on the Earth is considered.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The RPR scheme should make easier building strategies and tactics. Each point at each level is a crossing of relations open to examination either vertically among levels, and\/or among actors on each level here and now in space-time. The immediate concern is to understand better embeddedness of individual engagement in unstable environment of institutions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Discussions on strategic issues often take into consideration tactics and methods, as these levels are interlinked in practice. In theory, the hierarchy is clear: strategy should determine tactics, and tactics should determine methods. Strategy should determine our long-term orientation, tactics our steps in that direction and methods our ways of moving forward. However, a few tactical successes can change the strategic objectives, and the use of certain methods can influence the tactical capabilities of future efforts. Or are methods just neutral modes of action that we select from a set of known modes of action? Is the use of shocking symbolic actions in museums, court proceedings, mass protests and occupations the same from a strategic point of view?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The participants bring to the Summer School a wealth of experience and knowledge of the different campaigns and actions we are taking to address the environmental crisis in a just way. In this workshop, we will try to reflect on these experiences and discover any possible links between the methods, tactics and strategies that shape the successes and failures of diverse progressive actors in the struggle for a good life within planetary boundaries.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Moderator: Sa\u0161a Kralj\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A subaltern perspective on grassroots efforts towards ecological civilization<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Since the concept of \u201cecological civilization\u201d was written into the Constitution of the People\u2019s Republic of China in 2018, it has been promoted as the state\u2019s key strategy in response to developmentalism and environmental degradation. What could this mean for China and for the world? The lecture will explore the challenges and possibilities, stress the importance of taking a subaltern perspective, and highlight the efforts of grassroots communities in charting a viable path for ecological civilization.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Navigating Europe's Polycrisis Towards Postcapitalist Transformation<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This lecture will explore the challenges and opportunities that the unfolding polycrisis creates for movements seeking postcapitalist transformation, focusing predominantly on the European context. It will argue that polycrisis analysis is needed to illuminate the political possibility space and identify obstacles and trade-offs that counter-hegemonic movements must navigate. <\/span><\/p>

First I will analyze Europe\u2019s ongoing polycrisis, focusing on some of the key intersections between the climate crisis, economic stagnation, energy and food crises, care crises, a crisis of democracy, the war in Ukraine, and Trumpian trade wars. <\/span><\/p>

econd, I will briefly discuss how these intersecting challenges are currently being framed by EU policy elites and why their proposed responses will almost certainly fail to adequately address this polycrisis. <\/span><\/p>

Third, I will explore four alternative futures for Europe: <\/span><\/p>

1)<\/strong> social democratic reform with deepening European integration; <\/span><\/p>

2)<\/strong> postcapitalist and postgrowth transformation with deepening European integration; <\/span><\/p>

3)<\/strong> social democratic reform in the context of EU fragmentation; <\/span><\/p>

4)<\/strong> postcapitalist and postgrowth transformation in the context of EU fragmentation <\/span><\/p>

I will discuss the various trade-offs and risks that each scenario would confront, as well as the counter-hegemonic coalitions and strategies that might make them attainable. I will argue that while scenario 2 is the most desirable future it is also by far the least likely to materialize, while scenario 4 is most likely the only politically plausible scenario for postcapitalist transformation in Europe, though it faces numerous obstacles and trade-offs of its own.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mobilising against the ecological costs of imperialism and war<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Warfare, including investment in and maintenance of military infrastructure, are crucial drivers of global carbon emissions and environmental destruction. The escalation of the threat of war in the Middle East, starting with the ongoing destruction of Palestine by Israel and the US, the proxy war with Ukraine and the ramping up of military mobilisation against China, means potential increases in emissions on a massive scale. Yet the ecological costs of imperialism are underemphasised. <\/span><\/p>

Military budgets and national security are seemingly beyond scrutiny. In the UK, defence spending will increase to 2.6% of GDP by 2027 and 3% by 2030 \u2013 at the expense of overseas aid and national welfare. Apart from national security, spending is justified on the spurious grounds of job creation. But weapons manufacturing is estimated to employ a mere 135,000 people directly. Most workers are supportive of transitioning out of the defence industry if it means good jobs, fair wages and retraining opportunities. Yet the general approach of union bureaucracies has been to prioritise immediate economic concerns over serious discussion of either the military-industrial complex or the climate crisis. <\/span><\/p>

This lecture considers the ecological dimensions of imperialist war, assesses the ecological damage of these wars and suggests what a just green transition in the defence industry might involve. Ultimately, if addressing the climate crisis is impossible without demilitarisation, then a just transition requires not only the participation and mobilisation of workers in the industry but also the building of anti-imperialist movements.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Doctoral students will briefly present the main theses and ideas of their work or articles.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>