This event will see separate talks from The University of Manchester's Professor Matthew Paterson and Dr Sarah Mander
Agenda:
14:00: Welcome and introduction with event chair (TBC)
14:05: Matthew Paterson, Professor of International Politics, Faculty of Humanities, Manchester Environmental Research Institute & Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of Manchester
Climate politics between purification and complexity
14:30: Q&A with Matthew Paterson
14:40: Dr Sarah Mander PhD, Reader, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing & Manchester Urban Institute & Thomas Ashton Institute & Manchester Environmental Research Institute at The University of Manchester | Topic TBC
15:05: Q & A with Dr Sarah Mander
15:15: Event Close
Presentation Overviews:
Professor Matthew Paterson | In the governance of climate change – and sustainability more generally – we can see a recurring tension. On the one hand, there is a tendency and desire to reduce climate change to a single type of problem - a question of prices, technology, population, or capitalism, notably. These ‘purifications’ can be extremely useful in focusing attention, identifying specific types of intervention, or mobilising social support for climate action. But they stand in tension with the intrinsic complexity of climate change. Acting on climate change requires paying attention to the multiple interactions across scales between governance, policy, technology, economic incentives, corporate strategies, daily life, social inequalities, and so on. The presentation draws on my recent book In Search of Climate Politics to illustrate the argument empirically and extends the implications for thinking about how these two contradictory dynamics might be deployed to pursue sustainability more effectively.
Dr Sarah Mander | Topic TBC
