Graduate Student Workshop with Matt Huber

• In-person event
• 1524, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

• Contact
• David Hugill; Stacy Douglas, DavidHugill@cunet.carleton.ca; StacyDouglas@cunet.carleton.ca

EVENT DESCRIPTION: The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Institute for Political Economy are pleased to welcome geographer Matt Huber (Syracuse) for a workshop about his new book Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso 2022, see description below).

Space is limited but open to all Carleton University graduate students. Participants are asked to commit to reading the introduction and one chapter of Climate Change as Class War in advance of the event to ensure an engaged and stimulating conversation. Selections of the book will be circulated in advance by email to all participants.

Please note that the Institute for Political Economy asks that masks be worn at this event.

“In Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted with its disproportionate effect on the climate. Yet, at present the climate movement is unpopular and rooted in the professional class, where it remains incapable of meeting this dizzying challenge. As an alternative, Huber proposes a climate politics to appeal to the majority—the working class—and he evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working-class material and ecological interests. He advocates building union power in the very energy system that must be transformed. In the end, winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on planetary working-class solidarity.”

Hardcopy and e-book versions of Climate Change as Class War are available from Verso at 40% off the cover price until October 1, 2022. Details here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war