How can we implement a just green transition? This is a question we frequently pose, yet rarely explore in sufficient depth to answer it with a proper strategy.
Broadly, green transition strategies can be divided into a three-part framework: strategies of rupture and transition to eco-socialism; strategies for taming and reforming eco-modernisation; and strategies for building alternative social infrastructures that, at least partially, erode existing socio-environmental systems.
Which social classes and groups can lead a just green transition, and what political form should they adopt to gain power? Can the competitive state be transformed into the green state? What role do decentralisation and regionalisation play in these efforts? Is there potential for convergence between workers’ and environmental struggles? How can we bridge the perspectives of the Global South and the Global North?
The Summer School aims to help strengthen strategic thinking, which should complement and build on utopian and critical approaches to the environmental crisis.