In this seminar, we explore how democratic principles and institutions are challenged in the climate crisis. Do we have to rethink equality, autonomy, and justice? Do we need new perspectives on migration, courts, historical injustice, and gender? We discuss how political theorists working in different traditions have engaged with these questions and which conceptual, normative, and institutional proposals they develop. First, we will engage with different ways of ‘seeing’, approaching, and analyzing the normative and political problems. In the second part of the seminar, we will focus on institutional and normative proposals to address these issues.
Literature
Caney, Simon (2021). Climate Justice. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available online at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-climate/.
Fraser, Nancy (2021). Climates of Capital. Podcast: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/climates-of-capital/
Gonzalez-Ricoy, Inigo/Rey, Felipe (2019). Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 10 (5), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.598 
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Lane, Melissa (2016). Political Theory on Climate Change. Annual Review of Political Science 19 (1), 107–123. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-042114-015427 .
- Lehrende/r: Svenja Ahlhaus