SCI annual lecture: Material participation and sustainable practice

In May 2021 we hosted David Schlosberg as a virtual visiting professor to SCI. In the course of this two-week ‘visit’ we held four events: 

David gave the first SCI annual lecture, entitled ‘Material participation and sustainable practice’, which explored the idea of - and demand for - political participation that is just, prefigurative, sustainable, and based on material actions. What kind of politics is guerrilla gardening or installing community batteries? While there is a long history of material participation in social movements, recent movements incorporate a shift in relations between human and nonhuman as a political act.

Watch the 2021 SCI annual lecture below.