Climate and Environmental History Seminar: Johan Gärdebo (Uppsala University)
"Climate Politics: Roots, Reactions, Reform – Historical Lessons from Europe’s and Sweden’s Green Transition"
Seminar
Date:
Wednesday 2 April 2025Time:
15.00 – 17.00Location:
Department of History, room D900 and on Zoom.With resurgence in outward pressure facing Europe, the EU reconsiders climate politics in the hope of addressing its overall geopolitical weakness. With actual climate change remaining a concern to many of Europe’s constituencies, real existing climate politics is coming to terms with green industries not being profitable, green political parties losing electoral support, and green regulations increasingly resisted by new populist movements. Johan Gärdebo argues that reactions to climate politics can be understood by tracing its roots to a longer history of industrial transitions, in this case Sweden’s iron-making and modernisation of northern Sweden. From this follows a discussion on what are the lessons for a reform of present-day climate politics.
Johan Gärdebo. Foto: Anna Carin Isaksson.
Johan Gärdebo is a historian, Researcher at Uppsala University and Research Fellow at University of Cambridge. He also writes on political philosophy for magazines, newspapers and the Manifesto Podcast.
Zoom link: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62666439365
Convenors: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm University), Charlotta Forss (Södertörn University), and Martin Skoglund (Stockholm University).
For information about the seminar, e-mail: fredrik.c.l@historia.su.se
Last updated: 2025-04-01
Source: Department of History