'Green Capital: The Lie at the End of the World?' with Fiona Macmillan
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‘Green Capital: The Lie at the End of the World?’
Professor Fiona Macmillan (Professor of Law, Birkbeck)
With a little bit of help from Anna Tsing's book, The Mushroom at the end of the World (Princeton University Press, 2015) and Andreas Malm's, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency (Verso, 2020) this seminar will reflect pessimistically on the prospects of "greening" the legal infrastructure that holds together global processes of capital accumulation, with a particular focus on the role of international economic law in this respect. As a pre-Christmas antidote to pessimism, the seminar will examine (with guarded optimism) the prospects for a revolutionary approach to the intractable problem of the nature-capital relationship in the hoped for post-pandemic period.
Law Research Seminar Series
This event is part of Birkbeck's Law Research Seminar Series. Free to attend and open to the public, the series welcomes scholars from around the world to discuss their latest research.
To celebrate the launch of Birkbeck’s new LLM in Environmental Law, Policy and Governance, this term's research seminars will cover topics in the field of environmental law and policy.
This event is open to the public and free to attend however booking is required via this page. The event will be hosted on Collaborate, a free to access website. You will be sent a link to access the event upon registration.
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