(PRE)FIGURING FASCISM #2: Policing the Environmental Crisis

This talk will look at how and why the police are often used as way of resolving crises generated by climate crisis, and what an abolitionist approach can say about climate breakdown, and an emerging political form of climate barbarism that appears to be coalescing.

There will be a short talk with some pictures, and then an opportunity to think and discuss together how the themes of the presentation differ in other contexts.

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Oscar Talbot is an activist and scholar working in Amsterdam. His work connects themes of abolition, state violence, and climate breakdown with a critique of prisons, police, and borders.

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(Pre)Figuring Fascism is a series of talks drawing attention to the continuities between liberal governance and fascism, hoping to stimulate an understanding of fascism as it relates to colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism – rather than viewing it as a kind of shock to an otherwise well-working liberal system. Because we know: So long as the conditions for fascism’s emergence are not overcome, we are always living in proto-fascist times.