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"In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so?" In The Progress of this Storm, "a blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto", Swedish political ecologist Andreas Malm (author of Fossil Capital), develops a counterargument: "in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable."  In this session of the Political Ecology Reading Group series 2019-20 of the Ecology and Society Lab (Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade-CES), Emanuele Leonardi and Jonas Von Vossole will discuss Malm's book, relating it to current climate struggles and politics

This seminar is part of the Political Ecology Reading Group series 2019-20 of the Ecology and Society Lab (Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade-CES). If you wish to receive a copy of this paper, please contact ecosoc@ces.uc.pt