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The Climate Politics of Tomorrow: New Settings for Environmental Change-Making
VSHA Speaker Series
Free* And Open To All!
Wednesday, April 15, 2025 – 7:00-8:30 pm
Cook Street Activity Center
380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), Victoria
Street Parking
Please Enter By The Side Entrance
Coffee/Tea nearby at The Mocha House – BYO!
Speaker:Â James Lawson**
The last forty years, often described as “neoliberal”, re-shaped the political, social, and environmental landscape and its rhythms with distinctive infrastructure. The new settings made for new strategies, including strategies for non-violent direct action – pipeline politics is just one example. Now that both neoliberalism and liberal democracy are in trouble, the necessary strategic thinking must shift again, for the space-time settings for politics are changing as well.
**Bio: James (or Jamie) Lawson is Associate Professor in Canadian Politics at the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His specialization is in the political economy of land and resources, with a special interest in the role of non-violent direct action in forest and petroleum politics. He has taught courses and written on climate politics, including the oil policies of populism in Alberta. He also teaches regularly in the institutions of government, and did his master’s degree on federalism.