What do social movements have to say about climate change? What is their role in local and global governance of climate change? How do climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a postapocalyptic present? Some people say individual changes are needed, while others think it should come from systemic change. How does the climate movement reconcile both? 

Answers by Joost de Moor, a researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, who has been working on these issues for years.

Additional Resources

• Joost de Moor, Jens Marquardt, Deciding whether it’s too late: How climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a postapocalyptic present, Geoforum, 2023
• Joost de Moor, Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities, Environmental Politics, 2022
• Joost de Moor, The ‘efficacy dilemma’ of transnational climate activism: the case of COP21’, Environmental Politics, 2018
• Joost de Moor, Michiel De Vydt, Katrin Uba, et al. ‘New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism ’, Social Movement Studies. 2020

Recorded on 20 April 2023 

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