We're back with season 2 of the CJ Deal Podcast!

The Climate Justice (CJ) Deal is a set of policies that translate the principles and systemic alternatives described in the Climate Justice Charter into policy form. In this podcast, we interview academics, researchers and activists on ideas and articles that have influenced the creation of the CJ Deal for South Africa.

In this episode, we're joined by Dr Ariel Salleh an Australian Sociologist and Ecofeminist writer who writes on humanity-nature relations, political ecology, social change movements, and ecofeminism. This episode is the first of 2 parts. In it, we touch on the concept of the Anthropocene, the necessity of the ecofeminist perspective and the conceptual roots of the pluriversal.

We're back with season 2 of the CJ Deal Podcast!

The Climate Justice (CJ) Deal is a set of policies that translate the principles and systemic alternatives described in the Climate Justice Charter into policy form. In this podcast, we interview academics, researchers and activists on ideas and articles that have influenced the creation of the CJ Deal for South Africa.

In this episode, we're joined by Dr Ariel Salleh an Australian Sociologist and Ecofeminist writer who writes on humanity-nature relations, political ecology, social change movements, and ecofeminism. This episode is the first of 2 parts. In it, we touch on the concept of the Anthropocene, the necessity of the ecofeminist perspective and the conceptual roots of the pluriversal.

The Climate Justice (CJ) Deal is a set of policies that translate the principles and systemic alternatives described in the Climate Justice Charter into policy form. In this podcast, we interview academics, researchers and activists on ideas and articles that have influenced the creation of the CJ Deal for South Africa.

Our guest for this episode is Prof. Patrick Bond. Patrick is a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. He is also a Professor of Sociology at the  University of Johannesburg. In today’s conversation, we brought our focus to the South African context. We looked at the question of climate debt from a regional perspective, whilst looking at questions concerning the concept of  natural capital and the commons

The Climate Justice (CJ) Deal is a set of policies which translate the principles and systemic alternatives described in the Climate Justice Charter into policy form. In this podcast, we interview academics, researchers and activists on ideas and articles that have influenced the creation of the CJ Deal for South Africa.

Our guest for this episode is Australian economist Steve Keen. Steve is an Honorary Professor at the University College London  & a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security (ISRS)

Today we will be talking about his 2020 article “The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change”, to understand the ways in which neoclassical economics has warped our understanding of the climate crisis from an economic perspective

His latest book is called The New Economics: A Manifesto

Articles mentioned in the interview:

Steve Keen - The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change

Tom Murphy - Time to Move Beyond Average Thinking

Tom Murphy - Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist

Planetary Limits Academic Network (PLAN) 

The Climate Justice (CJ) Deal is a set of policies which translate the principles and systemic alternatives described in the Climate Justice Charter into policy form. In this podcast, we interview academics, researchers and activists on ideas and articles that have influenced the creation of the CJ Deal for South Africa.

Our guest for this episode is Alfredo Saad-Filho. Alfredo is a Professor of Political Economy and International Development in the Department of International Development. Previously, he was Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London; Chair of the SOAS Department of Development Studies (2006-10); Head of SOAS Doctoral School (2018-19); and Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2011-12).

His academic publications include nine authored or edited books, 70 journal articles and 50 book chapters, as well as 30 reports and other contributions for the United Nations and other international agencies (UNCTAD, UNDP, UN-ESCWA, and UN-DESA). His work has been published in 15 languages and presented over 200 academic events in 30 countries.

These writings range across critiques of the (Post-)Washington consensus; International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank policies and pro-poor policy alternatives. They also include concrete analyses of fiscal, monetary, financial, balance of payments and employment policies, as well as inflation targeting, resource use (including ‘resource curse’ and Dutch Disease) and policy-making in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America (especially Brazil) and the Middle East.