Brown Bag Seminar: Kristoffer Ekberg - Don’t tell me what to do! On corporate and economic resistance to climate policy and democratic planning in Sweden (and beyond)

The existence of a well-organized fossil-fuel financed climate change countermovement since (at least) the late 1980s is well established in the literature on climate politics. In the US this opposition to climate policy has become a defining feature of the political landscape. The EU in general and Sweden in particular has instead been understood as more compliant with regulations and the demands of environmentalists and scientific consensus. This understanding of a compliant industry has increasingly been challenged by recent business history and history of ideas scholarship looking at arguments of self-regulation of industry and economic logic. But can we talk about a Swedish climate change counter-movement, or Swedish anti-environmentalism? From when? And what are the connections to the rise of neoliberal arguments and policies? The talk will be based on Kristoffer Ekberg's published and ongoing research on these topics.

Register for the seminar and a vegan sandwich here!