Join us on June 23rd for a talk about the new book on Alternative Futures in a Heating World: Visions and Vision Work of the Swedish Climate Movement, with one of its authors, Joost de Moor.
Hosted by Eylem Kanol, who will also join the discussion, the event is held in hybrid mode at the Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Soziologie and online.
If you would like to attend online, please email info@protestinstitut.eu by 21 June to register and receive the link. No registration is needed for in-person attendance.
About the book
This book develops the concepts of vision and vision work in relation to the study of social movements and applies it to an empirical investigation of how the climate movement envisions what a fossil-free and just future could look like. Using a dynamic approach, it develops an understanding of the challenges and processes through which visions come about – or may struggle to do so. The book moreover assesses the resonance of movement visions among political elites and the broader public. The analysis focuses on Sweden, a long-term leader in climate action and the cradle of the Fridays For Future movement, but also a country that like many others struggles to meet the demands of climate science. How might the vision work of the climate movement enable societies to escape their carbon lock-in?
About the author
Joost de Moor is FNRS Research Professor in political science at the Institute of Political Science Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE) at UC Louvain. He has published on social movements, political participation, and environmental politics across several disciplines. His work studies how political, urban, and ecological contexts shape strategies and imaginaries in environmental movements.
