Friday, December 9, 12-2
Daniel Aldana Cohen
Frozen Analogies: Misreading the Past to Structure the Present Politics of Climate Change
I begin by exploring the importance and nature of analogies, in particular the political use of historical analogies. Second, I look at the three main historical analogies that have shaped action and debate in the realm of climate politics. Third, I address the shortcomings of these analogies; despite their striking differences, they turn out to share a common set of assumptions, which I seek to contrast to an alternative explanatory project grounded in structuralist political economy.