Nikolaj Schultz
The Ecological Class Struggle – with Special Attention to the Importance of Aesthetics and Affects
How come we are constantly bombarded with information about the unfolding, climatic catastrophe, but ecological mobilization is so limited? How come so many agree that climate change is the most important problem of our times, but Green parties around Europe all struggle to get over the electoral threshold? And under what conditions could ecology begin competing on equal footing with the old ideologies that continue to define the political landscape? In this lecture, Danish sociologist Nikolaj Schultz tries to diagnose these political stagnations and indicate potential pathways towards a strong ecological movement, by drawing on key insights from his and Bruno Latour's recently published book «On the Emergence of an Ecological Class» (Polity Books, 2022).
