Seminar: "Unequal Exchange, Development Denied, and National Liberation: Framework for Climate Justice", by Max Ajl

Max Ajl, Department of Conflict and Development Studies, University of Ghent, will give a talk within the lectures series "The Economics of Liberation" at ICTA-UAB. 

Seminar: "Unequal Exchange, Development Denied, and National Liberation: Framework for Climate Justice"

Speaker: Max Ajl, Department of Conflict and Development Studies, University of Ghent. 

Date: Tuesday, April 9th 2024
Time:10.30 AM
Venue: Sala Montseny Z/022 &  Z/023. ICTA-UAB and online https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87081609704?pwd=SktIWU9jTUdvdDJuNndTc2M1QkFTZz09


This presentation will consider the implications of polarization in the world system for climate justice movements in the South and the North. It will elaborate on how uneven development manifests as a threat to survival through political and economic vectors, requiring us to reconsider the role of national liberation and planning in the achievement of genuine anti-systemic climate justice.Max Ajl is at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, University of Ghent, and an associated researcher at the Observatory of Food Sovereignty and the Environment, Tunis. He has authored ‘A People’s Green New Deal’ and works on themes of political ecology. He is also an associate editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.