Interrogating Climate Apartheid: Law, Economy and Culture

This two-day conference provides an interdisciplinary platform for academic and non-academicstakeholders to interrogate the concept of climate apartheid. It will be focused on, but not limited to, putting the realms of law, economy, and culture into dialogue around a set of questions that pertain to the term or concept:  

• What and for whom is ‘climate apartheid’?  
• What does the notion add to existing scholarship on, for example, climate justice, international criminal law, environmental ethics orto narratives on politics and climate?  
• What—if anything—distinguishes it from other concepts concerned with the links between climate and inequality?  
• What kinds of values, normative commitments and/or narrative undergird the concept of ‘climate apartheid’?  
• What kind of relationship can be said to exist between ‘climate apartheid’ and the history and legacies of South African Apartheid?  
• To what extent is ‘climate apartheid’ primarily a material condition, a discursive formation, or geographical imaginary?  
• What legal, economic and cultural processes are said to give rise to ‘climate apartheid’?  
• What are the conceptual limits of ‘climate apartheid’?  
• What institutional implications does 'climate apartheid' have for addressing the ethics of climate finance?  
• Is there value in using ‘climate apartheid’ asa rhetorical device for mobilizing broad political support for climate change? Orwould this usage be counterproductive? 
• What types of obligations mightclimate apartheid help toestablish for urban,nationaland multilateral policy negotiations? 

This conference welcomes contributions from academics from all disciplines with an interest in addressing these and other questions relating to climate apartheid. Whilebbroadly organized around theconceptual pillars of law, economy and culture,the conference is open to all disciplinary, methodological and theoretical orientations.