Capital Accumulation, Racialisation and the Politics of Ecocide

The language of ‘ecocide’ has become an increasingly important tool in the arsenal of those seeking to oppose and contest the continued environmental destruction of the planet. This has been true both as a general phenomenon but also – more specifically – through the language of international law. Particular important in this regard have been recent proposals to create an international crime of ecocide for inclusion in the Rome State of the International Criminal Court.

Antonio Piraino

Antonio Piraino is in the final year of the MPhil in European Politics and Society. He is a member of St Antony’s College and a Dahrendorf Scholar at the European Studies Centre. His research focuses on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), European strategic autonomy, and European integration, particularly in the defence and security sectors.

Fidelia Danielle Renne

Dr Fidelia Danielle Renne is a Research Associate in Middle East Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford, and Lecturer at King’s College London in Social Movements and the Political Economy of the Middle East. She completed her doctorate in International Development at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID).

Voices from the Miners’ Strike Forty Years On: Historians Robert Gildea and Jim Phillips in conversation with Patricia Clavin

The first week in March marks the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, when 170,000 miners, backed by their families and supporters across the UK and abroad, fought to defend their pits, their jobs and their communities. The defeat of the miners shattered the labour movement in the UK and devastated mining communities, although there are also amazing stories of miners and their wives reinventing themselves, beginning new careers, and endeavouring to repair their communities.

Read more here: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/in-conversation-robert-gildea

Special Lecture - 1848 in the Rear-View Mirror: Resonances of 19th Century Revolution

*Professor Sir Christopher Clark* is the Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. His many acclaimed books have changed how both scholars and lay audiences think about the history of Prussia and the outbreak of the First World War. His most recent book is an epic new history of the revolutions and counter-revolutions which swept continental Europe in 1848: _Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849_ (Penguin, 2023). In this special lecture he will be reflecting on the how our current situation can shape our view of 1848 (and vice versa).
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