Conjuncture

Alex Loftus on Ecology, Right-wing Populism, and Gramscian Geography


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Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Alex Loftus about the climate crisis, right-wing populism, and "translating" Gramsci's geographical insights in the present.


Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts.


Alex Loftus is Professor of Political Ecology in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. He is the author of Everyday Environmentalism, co-author of Discovering Political Ecology, and co-editor of Gramsci, Space, Nature, Politics, among other important works.


Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Non-Resident Fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

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