Event report: ’In Search of Climate Politics’ book launch

On Tuesday, 8 February 2022 the launch event of Mat Paterson's book 'In Search of Climate Politics' took place. Sherilyn MacGregor and Rebecca Willis led an insightful and interesting discussion with Mat, which was followed by a Q&A and a reception. antenna-FDV1BaKNKEo-unsplash Prof Mat Paterson , Dr Sherilyn MacGregor and Prof Rebecca Willis (Lancaster University): After a brief introduction from Mat a lively discussion ensued about the meaning of -climate change is political- informed by Rebecca Willis- research on climate and energy governance and Sherilyn MacGregor's research on gender and climate justice. Mat also presented several vignettes from his book , which zero in on several case studies he conducted as part of this book. He summarises the main points of the book below: The book aims to think about what we mean by -climate change is political-. It develops an account where politics has three key meanings - as sites of collective authoritative decision-making, as the question of power in social life, and as a conflictual process. The inter-relations between these three (as opposed to insisting that politics is -really- only one of them) is crucial to understanding climate politics.