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by Critical Edges 2022-01-22 Number of comments0
Climate Change Collaborations Critique & Inspiration Culture Front Page Identity and Resistance Politics Society Voices

The roots of the climate crisis are colonialism, inequality and racism – not generational failure

The climate crisis is not the result of one generation’s failure, but of a whole system that has failed. To fix it, we need to work together across generations and demand unprecedented systemic change, write climate activists Selma de Montgomery and Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl in this article.

Portrait of Balibar
by Critical Edges 2021-10-14 1
Critique & Inspiration Culture Front Page Identity and Resistance Neoliberalism Politics Society Student Engagement Voices

The event of ‘May 68’ revolutionized thought and strengthened the possibilities of resistance

The philosopher Étienne Balibar views the uprising in France in 1968 as the point where we went “from a monolithic conception of power centered around the state, to a conception of the multiple forms of domination.” According to the already influential Marxist philosopher, the coordinates of liberating thought were thus changed permanently