Russian Disregard about Climate Change, with Alexander Etkind

In this conversation, Alexander Etkind sets out the reasons why environmental challenges are largely ignored in Russia, by public authorities and more generally by society. If this is largely explained by the weight of fossil fuels in Russia's income, there are other factors to take into account, such as state ideology, education and demography. Alexander Etkind also presents his conception of the Anthropocene, based on the thinking of Bruno Latour on Gaia modernity. Alexander Etkind, Professor of international relations at the Central European University. He has now launched a major project : “Politics of Anthropocene Interdisciplinary Hub”, jointly conducted by CEU and Sciences Po.  Additionnal ressources Russia Against Modernity, April 2023, Polity  Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources, Wiley, Oct. 2021    Recorded on 14 June 2023 Talk with Sergei is a podcast by Sciences Po. Hélène Naudet supervised the production of this series, accompanied by Anaelle Vergonjeanne. The Sciences Po audio department produced and mixed it.  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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Do you want to understand better the change that is happening in our societies and to our societies? The environmental transformation, the digital transformation, the challenges to our democracies coming from populism and authoritarian leaders, the rise of inequalities discrimination, globalisation,  the return of History in geopolitics? Sciences Po faculty is conducting frontier research on these issues. This is why we start this podcast on Sciences Po Research where Sergei Guriev Provost of Sciences Po will talk to our researchers. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.