Green Extractivism, Metabolic Rift and Energy Colonialism in South Africa – 30 Nov 2024, 17.00 CET

By | November 28, 2024
We invite you to participate in the seminar “Philosophy and Social Movements”. The seminar guest will be Kennedy Manduna who will deliver a talk “Green Extractivism, Metabolic Rift and Energy Colonialism in South Africa’s Just Energy Transition”.
The seminar will be held 30 November 2024 (Saturday) at 5 p.m. CET.
Kennedy Manduna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung, hosted by the Wits School of Governance (WSG) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, under the mentorship of Dr Caryn Abrahams. For the past seven years, he has been a researcher, teaching assistant and part-time lecturer within the WSG.

The seminar is organized within a scope of the project “Ideas of progress and development in the context of climate crisis in peripheral philosophies in XXI century” – National Science Centre, Poland, Opus 22, grant no 2021/43/B/HS1/03354 – realized at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, and in the collaboration with “Le Monde diplomatique – edycja polska”, Foundation Instytut Wydawniczy “Książka i Prasa” and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Warsaw.