Webinar: The Transformation of Industrial Politics

Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Global Working Group Beyond Development.

Monday, July 28, noon

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Industrial policy is largely state-led and state-focused. How has civil society interacted with these policies? Have trade unions, community organizations, and environmental NGOs had a place at the table or have they largely opposed industrial policies because of the negative effects–on the environment, on communities, on labor standards–of state policies?

Has the resurgence of industrial politics been good for the planet and people given the current climate breakdown? Can the industrial politics that arise from these interactions between state and civil society generate a new kind of transformational approach?

Ariel Salleh is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production, Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She is the author, most recently, of DeColonize EcoModernism!

Kennedy Manduna is a visiting scholar and fellow at the University of Potsdam and a research fellow at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. He is the author of the forthcoming Extractive Industry Indigenisation in Zimbabwe.

Lala Penaranda is the Latin America Coordinator for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED). She is completing an MA in Law and Economics of Climate Change in FLACSO Argentina. She has also worked as a tenant organizer at Met Council on Housing and an editor at NACLA.