Lecture by Vedran Horvat on ecological politics in the Balkans.
Vedran Horvat will be at Kino Lumbardhi on November 27, from 7:30 p.m. to discuss ecological policies in the Balkans informed by his work as the head of the Institute for Political Ecology and his latest book “Here at last – Pathways to Green Politics in the Balkans”. In the book he deals with the importance of green policies and their role in the Western Balkans under the magnifying glass of the return of authoritarianism, the erosion of democracy and environmental degradation, seeing these policies as key to being positive transformative agents of the future.
Vedran Horvat is a former journalist, sociologist, researcher, activist and author. Since 2015 he has worked as head of the Zagreb based Institute for Political Ecology. In the last two decades he has been on numerous occasions involved in environmental struggles, municipalist initiatives and green political projects in Croatia, in the Balkans and Europe. As founder and key coordinator of Green Academy, an advanced program of education in political ecology, he has been operating in the nexus between politics, academia and social movements.
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This is the second presentation of the series of lectures organized for the “Permanent Transition” project supported by the European Cultural Foundation.
This program brings together a multitude of researchers and professionals and practitioners from the fields of art, linguistics, activism, economy and other fields, with the aim of proposing different ways of understanding the climate crisis and how we can respond in the future.