Vendredi 19 juin, 14h-17h, Campus Condorcet, Bâtiment recherche Sud, salle 5.023.
Le séminaire Analyse des Crises et Transitions accueillera Claes Belfrage (Université de Liverpool) pour une présentation basée sur un article intitulé A Cultural Political Economy Approach to the Green Transitions: A Case Study of the (Incomplete) Transition in Brazil, dont vous trouverez le résumé ci-dessous. La présentation comprendra aussi une introduction à la Cultural Political Economy.
Claes Belfrage sera disponible pour discuter le matin du séminaire ou après celui-ci (et plus généralement toute cette semaine et la semaine prochaine) avec les doctorant·e·s qui peuvent être intéressé·e·s par les divers sujets sur lesquels Claes Belfrage travaille : théorie de la régulation, cultural political economy, méthodologie (réalisme critique, retroduction), financiarisation, transitions vertes. Claes Belfrage est installé dans le bureau 4.088.
Le séminaire peut être suivi en présentiel ou en ligne.
As we grapple with concurrent and entangled crises, none perhaps more threatening than the Climate Change Catastrophe, the Transitions literature is becoming increasingly ambitious in facing this challenge. However, it does not adequately capture the social struggle and strategic agency which support existing path-dependencies preventing the Green Transition, or for that matter, what agency could support the Green Transition in, what is still, a fossil fuel-dominated capitalism. We propose and further develop Cultural Political Economy for this purpose. With the help of a detailed case study of Brazil’s (incomplete) Green Transition, we show that CPE, with a few conceptual developments, offers the toolkit required to identify the social reasons for advancement and lack of progress. It enables us to understand how strategic action, intended to reproduce a historical bloc, can prevent or dilute the Green Transition, by calling upon structural and technological selectivities associated with a fossil fuel dispositive. This creates, as we are currently witnessing, what Gramsci called “morbid symptoms”, as fossil-fuelled capitalism is sustained to cause further socio-ecological damage and ultimately threaten the reproduction of capitalism. However, the same framework enables us to show how social struggle and strategic agency can lead to path-breaking shifts, often in response to crises in capitalism, towards a Green Transition. It can thus provide a complementary contribution to the sophisticated examination of socio-technical innovation processes offered by Transition Studies frameworks, such as the Deep Transition.
