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SUMMARY:The production of an urban post-political ecology: Or\, is the apo
 calypse really such a good thing? - Earl Harper\, University of Bristol
DTSTART:20181008T120000Z
DTEND:20181008T130000Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Since the early 2000s and the arrival of the new millennium\, 
 Apocalyptic discourse seems to permeate a great deal of public\, private a
 nd academic culture. From the proliferation of films depicting heroes batt
 ling the end of all things through to the seemingly irresistible drive tow
 ards cultural and planetary annihilation heralded by the election of Donal
 d Trump\, Brexit\, climate change\, migrant/refugee crises and plastic str
 aws. I take the apocalypse as a starting point to understand how 'the urba
 n'\, broadly conceived\, and radical democracy respond to an environmental
  pressure\, such as climate change. The literature appears divided\, typif
 ied by Zizek's claim the apocalypse is necessary for revolutionary politic
 s as it makes explicit currently disavowed forms of inequality and power\,
  and Swyngedouw's argument that the Apocalypse\, through the production of
  a terrifyingly catastrophic lack of future\, leads to the production of a
  post-politics of technomanagerialism. This presentation does not pretend 
 to offer an way out of this stalemate\, but rather plays with the role of 
 Political Ecology in understanding Post-Politics and the urban in the Anth
 ropocene. Utilising visual semiotics and Lacanian psychoanalysis\, I will 
 explore my fieldsite of Elephant & Castle\, South London\, and the literat
 ure to explore the basis for an 'Urban Post-Political Ecology'.
LOCATION:Room 101\, Hardy Building\, Department of Geography
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