Co-hosted by Mason’s Center for Humanities Research and Institute for a Sustainable Earth and co-sponsored by Mason’s School of Integrative Studies, Cultural Studies Program, and Center for Climate Change Communication, join us for the panel “Connecting/Not Connecting in Climate Justice Organizing: Formations of Community, Solidarity, Alienation, Antipathy,” moderated by Tianna Cobb. In this panel discussion, climate organizers will dialogue with academics about the ways that the climate crisis is driving changes in how we organize, through the emergence of both affirmative senses of collectivity grounded in solidarity, as well as agonistic senses of collectivity grounded in antipathy. What conflicts emerge from these shifts? What kinds of collective projects respond to them? Panelists will draw on their climate organizing experiences and scholarship to explore the terrain of solidarity and conflict, in which questions about how groups connect—and fail to connect—are crucial for efforts to create a just and sustainable future for all.
