Mariah Brennan Clegg is an incoming graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), with plans to pursue the Interdepartmental PhD Emphasis in Environment and Society focused on frontline climate resistance movements. She studied political theory at Williams College, where she completed independent study work in the area of public and counterpublic political engagement, and she spent her year abroad studying political and sociological theory at Oxford University. After a brief hiatus from academia, she returned to the classroom informally as a course auditor at UCSB. After attending Professor John Foran’s course “Climate Justice”, and being introduced to the concept for the first time, she began to explore ways to use film and creative writing to convey climate justice themes, and in 2015 she traveled to COP21 with other members of the Climate Justice Project to film the civil society response to the negotiations. Among other topics, she is interested in anarchism, Marxist Humanism, transgender studies, and prison ecology. She finds hope in soil-based environmentalisms, the ordinary-becoming-extraordinary, and death.
State, Capital, and Ecology: A Report to the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
To be sure, ecological calamity will not permit an organized, equitable, and civilized global community. Marxist Humanists and others would like to add, “it doesn’t come from one, either.”
July 31, 2018