Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
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Pn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16epts as ecology, economy and society—have all changed before. The twenty-first century belongs to whoever changes them next." - Timothy Shenk2AbstractThis thesis engages critically with the fossil fuel divestment (FFD) movement gaining strength in Western countries, with the specific aim of filling Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16a theorization gap in the small body of scholarly FFD literature. It develops a political ontology for the capitalist world-ecology described by JasonPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
w. Moore (2015) via Wainwright and Mann's speculative architecture of global political responses to climate change (2013). It comes to the conclusionPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16lidarity across class and species divisions. The potential of university campus FFD as a vehicle for such a "transnatural" labor politics is examined, with special attention paid to the role of climate justice framing and practice in moving FFD towards this goal. The thesis concludes that achieving Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16climate justice hegemony in the FFD movement could be a powerful step forward for an anticapitalist climate X, but that a route to a transnatural clasPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
s politics is not yet clear.1.Climate's demandWhat does climate change demand from US? That is, what kinds of changes in human behavior does the phenoPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16e of power) is crucially important to the issue of climate change, but prior to politics must occur a change in thinking, and an evolution in the structure of that thought. Why? Because "climate change" isn't1DePaul University. Please direct questions and comments to davidpurucker@yahoo.com.2Shenk 2 Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16014.Purucker2the whole problem, and if we continue to think like it is, then the exercise of power built on that incomplete knowledge will never matchPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
the changes truly before US. The Earth, and the life upon it, have entered a period of systemic ecological crisis, of which climate change is an impoPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16unpredictably affects existing ones, and is 111 the same moment produced and changed by those forces. Moreover, climate change is bound up with long historical processes that have depended in key ways upon exploitative relations between and among humans and non-human nature, processes now taking unp Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16redictable and perhaps unsustainable new turns. It therefore makes more sense to speak of a systemic ecological crisis, one which also encompasses strPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
uctural economic crisis, than of simply "climate change." This systemic crisis poses a severe challenge for humanity, and is therefore already produciPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16 advancing political and economic goals.Perhaps at one time, not even very long ago, it was possible to stand aloof from big questions of political and economic change on the global scale - but the present (and future) world-ecologic crisis, and the connected structural crisis of the world's means o Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16f production and circulation of resources (capitalism), affect all humans in some way.3 Especially for that bulk of humanity living in precarious econPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
omic and environmental conditions, it will have effects in quite dramatic and important ways. Thus, we're all invested somehow in the shape of global Pn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16n essential task for scholars, policymakers, and activists. In other words, the crisis, unprecedented in its complexity, scale, and threat, calls out for an expanded epistemology, a way of knowing and thinking about ecological upheaval, the relationship between capital and3Indeed, following Moore (2 Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16014a, 2014b, 2015), I argue later in this thesis that these crises are not simply "connected" but are in fact one and the same.Purucker3nature, and huPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
manity's existential position in the near and far future. Ways of thinking about these issues, when we think about them al all, are loo often depolitiPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16i of unpredictable global changes that are ultimately the product of human decisions, or the ways in which the crisis is the product of historical exploitation of human and lion-human nature.Why have wo - people concerned about the state of the world, especially climate change -not found a way to ex Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16pand our thinking about the crisis? Well, there is the understandable difficulty of confronting a civilization-scale emergency, one that poses seriousPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
existential questions (Scranton 2013, 2015). Simply put, there is a nonzero chance that unpredictable world-ecological crisis results, directly or otPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16e necessary to resolve these existential quandaries to formulate an effective knowledge project.4 The more fundamental problem may be something else: the tendency' in modernity to draw an ontological distinction between 'Nature' and 'Society', as if humans and their creations could ever be meaningfu Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16lly removed from the unified web of life and its myriad relationships and flows: the world-ecology. Denying this union comes easily - the Nature/SociePurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
ty binary is deeply embedded in Western culture and thought, and our language sometimes lacks the vocabulary to express alternative ideas about what oPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16e truly want to save ourselves, and nature, we need to develop a radical and fearless new kind of politics, one which rejects the separation of "ourselves" and "nature" outright.54Though I have argued the opposite position elsewhere (Purucker 2016).5And one which also recognizes the material force o Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16f this conceptual separation within modernity. In other words, the implicit separation of Society and Nature is not just an intellectual issue, but aPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
constructive (and destructive) phenomenon in the world - it is a real abstraction. (Moore 2015, 21; Ont of the Woods 2016; Toscano 2008).https://khothPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16ovements in the world-ecology For those of US who read humanity's history as a story too often written with blood, describing oppression, hierarchy, and suffering, and who see in the teeth of structural crisis a chance to write a more just story’, then theorizing and enacting new forms of progressiv Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16e political action is vital. These revolutionary forms of thinking and acting in response to world-ecological crisis are already emergent; they alwaysPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
need to struggle, and are too often crushed, but they do exist and can plausibly be nurtured into something that truly rivals oppressive systemic powPn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16 marketing the carbon-based energy resources long-identified as central drivers of geobiospheric6 change, most immediately the greenhouse effect. The FFD movement was born and has been physically embodied mainly at college campuses, where activists demand that university’ administrators divest endow Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16ments from fossil fuel companies (FFCs). Simultaneously, FFD-affihated NGOs have targeted charitable foundations and other large institutional investoPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
rs. The movement has grown rapidly in the five years since its emergence in 2011. A 2013 Oxford University study identified it as the fastest growing Pn nicker 1Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Limits to CapitalDavid Purucker1"The categories we use to make sense of the world—including such basic conce Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16(beginning in the late 1960s and ending in 1990) at least a decade to achieve (Ansar et al. 2013).FFD is so new that is has attracted little scholarly attention - my research uncovered just five published articles, two of which are non peer-reviewed undergraduate theses. There are also a number of ' Purucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16grey literature' analyses and research reports concerning FFD.7 This thesis aims to61 use "geobiospheric" as a a catch-all term to denote the spectrumPurucker, David Senior Thesis SQ15-16
of environmental systems on, in, and around the earth, including the climate system, the carbon cycle, weather patterns, biomes, etc.7 The peer-revieGọi ngay
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