On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo

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Bruno Latour (Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France) Nikolaj Schultz (University of Copenhagen)

On the Emergence of an Ecological Class

A Memo

Bruno Latour (Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France), Nikolaj Schultz (University of Copenhagen), Julie Rose

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English

Polity Press
27 February 2023

Politics & government; Political science & theory; The environment

Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism and other political ideologies have done at various times and places? What can ecology learn from history about how new political movements emerge, and how they win the struggle for ideas long before they translate their ideas into parties and elections?

In this short text, consisting of seventy-six talking points, Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz argue that if the ecological movement is to gain ideological consistency and autonomy it must offer a political narrative that recognises, embraces and effectively represents its project in terms of social conflict. Political ecology must accept that it brings along division. It must provide a convincing cartography of the conflicts it generates and, based on this, it must try to define a common horizon of collective action. In order to represent and describe these conflicts, Latour and Schultz propose to reuse the old notions of ‘class’ and ‘class struggle’, albeit infused with a new meaning in line with the ecological concerns of our New Climate Regime. Advancing the idea of a new ecological class, assembled by its collective interests in fighting the logic of production and safeguarding our planet’s conditions of habitability, they ask: how can a proud and self-aware ecological class emerge and take effective action to shape our collective future?

By: Bruno Latour (Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po) Paris France), Nikolaj Schultz (University of Copenhagen)
Translated by: Julie Rose
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 193mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9781509555055
ISBN 10: 1509555056
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 27 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of contents:I: Class struggles and classification struggles II: A prodigious extension of materialism III: The great turnaround IV: A class that's legitimate again V: A misalignment of affects VI: A different sense of history in a different cosmos VII: The ecological class is potentially in the majority VIII: The indispensable and too often abandoned battle of ideas IX: Winning power, but what kind? X: Filling the emptiness of the public space from below

Bruno Latour's transdisciplinary work, ranging across philosophy, history, anthropology and sociology, has positioned him as one of the world's most influential thinkers. After teaching at the Ecole des Mines in Paris from 1982 to 2006, he was appointed Professor at the Institut d'etudes politiques (Sciences Po), where he served as vice-president for research from 2007 to 2013. His many books include Laboratory Life, We Have Never Been Modern, Facing Gaia, Down to Earth and After Lockdown. Nikolaj Schultz is a sociologist and PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen.

Reviews for On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo

Elusive and magnificent by turns ... There's nothing anyone can tell us about the politics of climate change that we don't already think we know, and this is a problem. All the more reason, as Schultz and Latour see it, to build a new class movement - quite possibly the last of its kind. Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books sharp-witted, refreshing, and deeply convincing Modern Times Review