Ethemcan Turhan is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen (Netherlands). He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Environmental Humanities Laboratory between 2016 and 2020. His academic works appeared in journals such Energy Research and Social Science, Sustainability Science, WIREs Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Political Ecology, Dialogues in Human Geography and Capitalism Nature Socialism among others. Most recently, he co-edited the special issue Urban Climate Insurgency for Social Text (forthcoming in March 2022)
Keeping the world alive and healthy: The radical realism of the “forces of reproduction” – An interview with Stefania Barca
While capitalism has taught us to identify the first with money-making and the second with life-making – a necessary but nevertheless subordinated, dependent and qualitatively inferior activity – climate justice movements are claiming the progressive, i.e. egalitarian, emancipatory, and wealth-producing agency of reproductive forces.
February 7, 2022