DECOLONIAL ECOLOGY
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
26th of november 2024 / 18:30 - 22:00
Talks and screenings in French and English.
Admission to the event is free of charge but registration is recommended.
In January 2020, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate was cut out of a press photo with Greta Thunberg and three other climate activists at the WEF in Davos. She commented on social media:
"For the first time in my life, I understood what racism means".
For a long time, the ecological and the decolonial / anti-racist movements ran in parallel. It even seemed that their political demands were contradictory. In recent years, however, many European climate activists have demonstrated solidarity with those from the global South, and climate justice became a relevant issue. Activists and researchers dismantle the feel-good environmentalism of
the West, comforted by organic labels, climate neutral technologies and the reassuring promise of recycling. They revisit the colonial history of biodiversity studies and nature conservation that is closely interwoven with the plantations, monocultures and extractivism.
With "The Time For Denial Is Over – Decolonial Ecology", GROUP50:50 is inviting artists, activists
and researchers who are working towards a decolonial ecology to exchange around their practices. How can we deal with disappointment and uncertainty when apparent solutions to ecological issues continue to reproduce the same inequalities? How can we support the people most exposed to the impacts of climate change and ecological disaster without ending up in neo-colonial paternalistic approaches?
Programme curated by GROUP50:50 and organized in collaboration with Théatre Vidy-Lausanne.
With the support of Migros pour cent culturel and HEKS / EPER.