'The possibility cannot be ignored’: an introduction to economic histories of climatic futures
4:30pm - 6:00pm /
Tuesday 27th June 2017
/ Venue: McAusland Room Liverpool Guild of Students
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Dr Chris Pearson
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and members of the public.
- Admission: Admission is free, view the full programme and register for the event via Eventbrite.
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CHSSoHMT Environmental Humanities Themed Public lecture by Dr Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester.
The lecture outlines political and economic gestures towards securitization of climatic resources in response to the environmental and cultural developments since 1968, informing the idea that bad climate futures control present policy choices. Through anticipatory instruments that included systems modelling, future studies, integrated assessments and scenario-science, scientists, economists and politicians have produced the representation of climate (and climate change) as a growing economic peril with potentially disruptive effects on the neoliberal engagement with 'natural' resources. The paper also (but briefly) looks at how neoliberalism responded.
The lecture outlines political and economic gestures towards securitization of climatic resources in response to the environmental and cultural developments since 1968, informing the idea that bad climate futures control present policy choices. Through anticipatory instruments that included systems modelling, future studies, integrated assessments and scenario-science, scientists, economists and politicians have produced the representation of climate (and climate change) as a growing economic peril with potentially disruptive effects on the neoliberal engagement with 'natural' resources. The paper also (but briefly) looks at how neoliberalism responded.