Joost de Moor is a postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations, and Environment (SPIRE) at Keele University. Here, he works for the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) where he focuses on how grassroots movements pursue sustainability through prefigurative strategies. Joost’s research focuses on activism within the environmental movement, the climate movement, and the squatting movement, with a particular focus on the relation between strategies and political contexts.
The ‘New’ Climate Politics of Extinction Rebellion?
So what, if anything, sets the ‘extinction rebellion’ apart from previous campaigns? There are at least three ways in which XR occupies a remarkable position in this context, relating to its framing of the problem, its understanding of who has the responsibility for taking action to deal with it, and its strategic call for making those responsible act.
November 28, 2018