Prof. Stacey Balkan, Panelist for Radical Solidarities in Environments of Crisis

Professor Stacey Balkan will participate on a panel titled "Radical Solidarities in Environments of Crisis" on November 3rd at the American Studies Association Annual Conference.

An excerpt from the panel abstract:

The dying earth is the consequence of extractive capitalist practices that impact vulnerable populations first and most drastically. Rob Nixon (2013) names the under-recognized consequences of climate change that make poor people increasingly affected by displacement and dispossession as “slow violence.” Similarly, in a 2022 conversation with Kelly Hayes, Ruth Wilson Gilmore explains that racialized unfreedom exists within carceral economies in which “people are extracted from our communities, and then the defining resource of life itself, time, is ‘extracted from the extracted.’” Climate change creates environments of crisis that also extract time in the sense that the future existence of certain populations, and indeed of humanity itself, is foreclosed.   [ . . . ]