The Institute for Change Management & Management Development and the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability are pleased to host a Research Seminar with Martin Hultman. The seminar will take place on Monday, April 22, 2024, from 16:30 to 18:00 in room TC.4.12, WU. Martin's talk will be followed by a short comment by Dorothea Schoppek. 

Martin Hultman is associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and heads the global research network Center for Studies of Climate Change Denial (CEFORCED). He has widely published on energy, climate and environmental issues in a variety of journals and more than ten books, like Ecological masculinities (2018), Men, Masculinities and Earth (2021), Climate Obstruction (2022). Currently, he is working in the international research project on gender and energy Empower All, is heading the research program Whose body of Water? Rights of Nature as custodianship for ecological justice within planetary boundaries and is working on his single authored book Survival. Rights of Nature, Degrowth and Ecological Masculinities at the end of Anthropocene (forthcoming).

The title of his talk is: "Emergency. How Rights of Nature, Degrowth and Ecological Masculinities can deal with Climate Obstruction at the end of Anthropocene”. Fossil fueled climate obstruction (in overlapping forms of interests, ideologies, identities and infrastructures) is blocking the transformative action which is needed to deal with our ecocidal trajectory. It is rooted in a long history of colonial fossil fueled hetero-patriarchal domination using other than humans (as well as humans) as resource for capital accumulation. How to deal with its root causes? Rights of Nature, Degrowth and Ecological masculinities are today put forward as collective interventions in the system making fast, disruptive and revolutionary change possible.

Dorothea Schoppek is post-doctoral researcher in the ‘International Relations’ research group at TU Darmstadt and currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Multilevel Governance (WU). She works on social and political conflicts of transformation, agrarian change and forest policy, (neo-)Gramscian theory approaches and critical realism. After writing her doctoral thesis on the possibilities and limits of “transformative agency” for social ecological agrarian change, she is now interested in the role of law in transformative processes.