Jan 30, 2019
7:00PM to 8:30PM
My World’s on Fire, How ‘bout Yours? Unravelling the Politics and Culture of Climate Change
Join us for a discussion about how accelerating climate change is shaping and being shaped by politics and culture.
Robert O’Brien is Professor of Political Science and former director of McMaster’s Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. He is the author of six books and over twenty journal articles and book chapters in the fields of international relations and global political economy.
Susie O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster where her research and teaching focus on postcolonial and environmental literary and cultural studies. Her publications include Time, Globalization and the Human Experience and Popular Culture: A User’s Guide.
Part of the Living Democracy series.
Democracy can be strengthened or weakened, made anemic or vital. This series assumes that democracy must be tended, and offers differing, sometimes competing, ways of doing so.
