GMU Cultural Studies Colloquium

In the seventh episode of the "Capitalism, Climate Change, and Culture" podcast series from GMU Cultural Studies, Richard Todd Stafford talks with Christian Parenti, who has written about climate change in The New York Times, The London Review of Books,  The Nation,   Jacobin ,  Dissent,  and elsewhere. Parenti is an associate professor of economics at John Jay College of CUNY. Among others, he's the author of the book  Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence and is working on books about Alexander Hamilton as a political theorist and about the state as an environment-making force .   Stafford and Parenti discuss the role of the state in climate adaptation and mitigation. This podcast series is associated with George Mason University Cultural Studies' Colloquium Series. This year's series is called "Capitalism, Climate Change, and Culture." The industrial revolution liberated human beings from the cycles of nature — or so i...