On June 2nd, DCV will host the first of two lectures by renowned historian Jason W. Moore, entitled "Climate Crisis, Democratic Collapse: Zombie Capitalism and Socialism's Future".
These lectures mark the creation of the Laboratory for Critical Studies of the Anthropocene at CIAS - Research Center for Anthropology and Health, DCV, University of Coimbra.
This is the first time that Jason W. Moore comes to Portugal and this visit will be the first of many visits to Coimbra that will help to consolidate the area of Critical Anthropocene Studies in Portugal.
Jason W. Moore, professor of world history at Binghamton University, where he coordinates the World-Ecology Research Collective, is a leading figure in contemporary environmental history, with extensive work on the relationship between the history of capitalism and the contemporary environmental crisis.
He is one of the main proponents of a new theoretical paradigm within world history that he calls “world ecology” and that seeks to go beyond old Nature-Society dualisms. One of his main theoretical contributions is the concept of Capitalocene, a term that places the contradictions inherent in the capitalist mode of production and its way of organizing nature at the center of the contemporary environmental crisis.
He is a very prolific writer and speaker, and his essays, interviews and lectures (in over 20 different languages) can be found on his personal website: https://jasonwmoore.com/