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Corporate Power, Fossil Capital, Climate Crisis
Corporate Power, Fossil Capital, Climate Crisis
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
RC02 Economy and Society (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
This session explores the intersections between (a) networks, structures and practices of capitalist class power (and resistance to it), as centred in large corporations; (b) the political economy of fossil capital as a way of life that has reached global scale; and (c) the accelerating climate crisis, whose urgency seems to be matched by its intractability at least within the strictures of capitalism itself. Papers should address all three of these concerns, but can focus on any of a range of power modalities, including the following: corporate networks and elites, corporate ownership and control, the financing of fossil capital, corporate social responsibility discourses, think tanks and corporate advocacy, business activism and lobbying, soft denialism and green capitalism, carbon energy commodity chains, flashpoints of resistance.
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