What are the current political geographies of 'development'? In what geographical contexts are we able to think when imagining the politics of ecological transition or climate neutrality? How do we engage with 'extractivism' from the Global North? Where do we trace environmental in-justices?
To cope with the context of eco-social crisis, a plethora of new political concepts have opened a space to incorporate long-term readings of social change, coming from political economy, historical sociology or the new international division of labour theory. Ideas such as the postpolitization of climate change, the eco-colonialism, or the world-ecology paradigm raise questions around the political languages and the allowed geographies and scales to imagine in-between past and future, conditioning the possible responses to such context as well.
The aim of this session is to open a dialogue around the political concepts and grammars to analyse current eco-social crisis, particularly their geographical assumptions and scales. Our purpose is to analyze possible responses to such questions from political thinking, exploring how long-term global, regional and local dynamics are incorporated to contemporary political thinking.