Nancy Fraser in Dialogue with Kohei Saito Against the Environmentalism of the Rich

10/31 | Fri 17:30~19:00

【LANGUAGE】ENGLISH｜No interpretation

【HOW TO PARTICIPATE】

IN-PERSON : LECTURE HALL No. 3

International Academic Research Bldg. 1F.

Hongo Campus,The University of Tokyo

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" In this lecture, I argue that single-issue environmentalism is “the environmentalism of the rich” and cannot save the planet. What is needed, rather, is an environmentalism from below, which links the defense of nature to the emancipation of human beings. Such an environmentalism must, I claim, be anti-capitalist and “transenvironmental”– linked to class struggles for livelihood security and labor rights, affordable housing and childcare, quality education and health care, migrant and minority rights, antisexism and anti-racism, peace and human rights. To support those propositions, I’ll offer a mix of arguments–some conceptual, some historical, some political. "

Prof. Nancy Fraser

Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Senior Fellow,

Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, New School

for Social Research (New York).

【Publications (selected)】

・Cannibal Capitalism,(Verso, 2022).

・Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a

Globalizing World,(Polity Press,2008). 邦訳『正義の

秤―グローバル化する世界で政治空間を再想像する

こと』（向山恭一訳、法政大学出版局、2012 年）

・Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the

"Postsocialist" Condition,(Routledge,1997).邦訳

『中断された正義―「ポスト社会主義的」条件をめぐる

批判的省察』（仲正昌樹監訳、御茶の水書房、2003 年）

Prof. Kohei Saito 斎藤幸平

Associate professor at the University of Tokyo.

【Publications (selected)】

・Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto,(Penguin

Random House, 2024).

・Marx in the Anthropocene. Towards the Idea of

Degrowth Communism,(Cambridge University

Press, 2023).

・Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and

the Unfinished Critique of Political

Economy,(Monthly Review Press, 2017)

HOST : Department of Death & Life Studies and Practical Ethics,

Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO

This event is part of "Sustainability and Humanities Seminar Series.