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A New Wave of Climate Action: Theories, Frames, Organization, Strategies

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COSMOS CONFERENCE

18 February 2022 | h 9:30-13:00 (CET)

Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Scuola Normale Superiore
Palazzo Strozzi (5th Floor), Piazza degli Strozzi, Firenze

9.30 – 11.00 Organization and strategy

Anneleen Kenis (KU Leuven/Ghent University/University of Cambridge)
Our future in your hands? Struggling with time in the Polemocene

Marco Deseriis (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Communication creates networked organization: A comparative analysis of the organizing practices of two European climate action movements

Paola Imperatore (Università di Pisa)
On movement contamination: the relationship between Climate Justice mobilizations and local environmental resistances in Italy

11.30 – 13.00 Theories and framing

Joost de Moor (Sciences Po Paris)
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism

Lorenzo Zamponi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Bottles and barricades. The ‘climate justice’ frame and theories of change in climate action

Louise Knops (Université Catholique de Louvain/Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Beyond the indignation of climate activists: the political potential of climate-emotions

The seminar will be held in presence at Sala l’Altana, 5 th floor, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi, Florence

Entrance will be allowed up to the maximum capacity of the room and the Reinforced Green Pass will be verified at the SNS Front Office, V floor.

External guests are requested to fill in the reservation form.

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