Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimation of Climate Coloniality

Name: Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimation of Climate Coloniality
Start: 2025-04-11T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-11T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Læderstræde 20, 1201 Copenhagen, Denmark

Schedule

Fri Apr 11 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Læderstræde 20, 1201 Copenhagen, Denmark | Copenhagen , SK

The event is free to attend - please sign up in advance via this link: https://cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar/2025/performative-environmentalism/sign-up/
If global summits are the public theatres of climate coloniality where diversion, co-optation, and performativity without substance are repeated, what are its more everyday and intimate registers? In this talk, Manisha Anantharaman, professor at Sciences Po, relate climate coloniality to an “imperial mode of living”, a concept from Brand and Wissen, through a reflection on the politics of greening consumption and everyday life.
Drawing on a cross-scalar analysis, Manisha argues that performative environmentalism is the everyday expression and legitimating structure of climate coloniality, providing a sense of purpose and progress to well-meaning elite environmentalists while reproducing a hierarchical local-to-global order. Achieving climate justice then, requires an approach that considers these global histories of inequality, as well as the relations of mutual precarity and vulnerability that connect different localities through metabolic relations.
After the talk, Charlotte Jensen, senior consultant at CONCITO, will join Manisha for a panel conversation moderated by Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, head of the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking.
Charlotte Jensen works on enabling sustainable everyday lives, societies and futures, through quantitative as well as qualitative approaches to systems-configuration and systems change. She particularly focuses on how to reduce consumption-based emissions by enabling good lives within planetary boundaries.
After the event, there will be a reception with drinks and snacks.
The event begins on time – if you are late, please ring the bell and reception will let you in.