Climate politics and Autocratization - PhD Course/Conference

Name: Climate politics and Autocratization - PhD Course/Conference
Start: 2025-03-25T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-26T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Jekteviken 31, Bergen, Norway

Schedule

Tue, 25 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 am to Wed, 26 Mar, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Jekteviken 31, Bergen, Norway | Bergen, HO

This two-day international and interdisciplinary PhD course provides in-depth engagement with the state-of the art research on the intersection of autocratization and climate politics in contemporary society.
Democracies are under pressure world-wide and we are currently witnessing a wave of autocratization. At the same time, across the globe countries are reducing their national climate ambitions by diminishing climate protection or removing existing climate policies. How can we understand the dual challenge of a global backlash against democracy and pro-climate policies? What connects the democratic and the climate crises? Democratic backsliding and the climate emergency pose fundamental challenges to societies crossing the norther-southern divide. Yet, while social scientists have tended to focus on explaining the democracy challenges, the theorizing on the climate emergencies have been left to the natural scientists.
In this course we critically reflect on the interconnections between two large challenges facing the world: autocratization and the climate emergency. We ask how autocratization directly or indirectly affect the dismantling of climate policies. We investigate how rising temperatures are linked to the proliferation of armed conflicts, food shortages and economic recessions. We also discuss the links between climate denialism and populist movements and the role of global institutions in these global battles.
Format: This is an in-person conference-style PhD course (2 ECTS) combining lectures, roundtable discussions and presentation of work in progress. The course is interdisciplinary and open to candidates from universities in Norway and abroad. It is free of charge, but participants must cover their own travel and accomodation.
Read more about the course here: https://www.lawtransform.no/climate-politics-and…/
Apply here: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=18411864