Publications, articles and engagements

Research

The OCC! Has since its start in 2018 addressed and focused on practices and experiments of grassroots organizations and initiatives across different cases. The team has published several scientific articles, articles in the popular press and participated in various events, seminars, conferences, and presentations. Below you can see a selection of what has grown out of this project.

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Forthcoming publications

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Conferences, Academic Presentations, and Academic teachings

PresenterPresentation/ PaperVenue
Ayşem Mert12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic,  12-15 September 2018
Lise SedrezThe Gardens of Babilonia Hill. Climate Challenges and Community Initiatives in Rio de Janeiro, 1985-2015The Clais Lunchtime Speaker Series, Yale Macmillan Center, 24 September 2018
Ayşem MertDeconstructing the CAP: Global versus grassroots influences on urban climate adaptationEarth System Governance Conference, Utrecht, 5-8 November 2018
Mario BrumDerecho a la ciudad8th Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Social Sciences.Struggles for Equality, Social Justice, and Democracy in a Turbulent World. 1st World Forum on Critical Thinking, 18-22 November 2018
Marco ArmieroIntensive school for Graduate students on “Loss, Damage and Mobility in the context of Climate Change.” co-organized with CLISELNaples 12 December 2018 (Listen here)
Ayşem MertFrom utopian socialism to ecotopia at the end of history (Opening Speech)Discourse Theory: Ways Forward (DESIRE Conference), Brussels, Belgium, 8-9 February 2019
Marco ArmieroHuman and posthuman narratives in the citiesWorkshop Sub/urban Political Ecology Workshop, University of Amsterdam,  25 – 26 February 2019
Ayşem MertDeconstructing the CAP: Global versus grassroots influences on urban climate adaptationInternational Studies Association Conference, Toronto, 27-30 March 2019
Maria Federica PalestinoExploring the governance of Naples (Italy) through a climate sensitive approachConference Production of Climate Responsive Urban Built Environments, Istanbul Policy Center of Sabanci University, 24 May 2019
Salvatore Paolo De RosaEcology and the City – Cities, Nature, ConflictsFondazione Feltrinelli –Festival About a City. Places, ideas and rights for 2030 citizens in Milan, Italy, 24 May 2019
Ayşem Mert (with Jelle Behagel) Entangling Fantasy in the Political (and Nature)International Conference in Ideology and Discourse Analysis,  Essex University, UK, 31 May-1 June 2019
Maria Federica PalestinoResilienza comunitaria e sviluppo di nuovi immaginari climate- sensitive. Note sulla percezione collettiva del cambiamento climatico in cittàThe XXII National Conference SIU L’Urbanistica italiana di fronteall’Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile, Bari-Matera,  5-7 June 2019
Ayşem MertInterpreting Climate Action Plans: Global vs. grassroots influences on urban climate adaptation narratives14th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference,Luleå University of Technology, Sweden,  9 -11 June 2019 
Ashley DawsonResisting Displacement and Dispossession – Peoples’ climate action plan for NYCPlanners Network Conference NYC, 21-22 June 2019
Ashley DawsonCities and Climate Justice, Global and Local StrategiesLeft Forum 2019, Long Island University,  28-29 June 2019
Lise SedrezRoundtable “Brazilian Environmental History and Global Convergences”.World Conference of Environmental History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis (Brazil),  22 -27 July 2019
Marco Armiero & Lise SedrezRoundtable “Experiences on Urban Environmental History: Methodologies, Uses and Goals in a Multidisciplinary World”World Conference of Environmental History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis (Brazil),  23 July 2019
Ethemcan Turhan
 
Spatializing Climate Justice
Center for Spatial Justice, Istanbul, 31 July 2019
Lise SedrezGraduate class on climate change and urban agendasUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26 August 2019
Marco ArmieroClimate change and forced migrationsVenice climate camp 6 September 2019
Ethemcan TurhanNarratives of climate justice in Turkey2nd International NEHT Workshop on Environmental Histories of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Middle East Technical University, 6-7 September 2019
Ayşem MertOn Being the Right Size: Scale, Democracy and the AnthropoceneInternational Conference on Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 11 – 13 September 2019
Lise Sedrez“Natureza urbana: um prazer e um desafio para os historiadores ambientais”IX Congresso Internacional de História. Maringá: Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 7 October 2019
Ayşem Mert (with Peter Christoff) A History of (post-)Anthropocene Democracy EISA 8th Exploratory Symposia, Rapallo, Italy,  23-26 October 2019
Ethemcan Turhan, Roberta Biasillo, Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo De RosaOccupy Climate Change: How do social movements address loss and damage from bottom up?Conference Understanding, Measuring and Governing Loss and Damage for Social and Ecological Systems, Lund,  30 October – 1 November 2019
Ayşem Mert (with Jelle Behagel) A fantasy of omnipotence? The Anthropocene debate and its influence on contemporary naturecultures Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance, Oaxaca, Mexico,  6-8 November 2019 
Ashley DawsonClimate Justice and Decolonial PerspectivesAmerican Studies Association annual conference – 2019 theme: Build as We Fight. Honolulu, Hawaii,  7-10 November 2019
Marco Armiero, Salvatore De Rosa, Ethemcan Turhan, Roberta BiasilloOccupy Climate Change! Urban radical imaginaries and insurgent citizens in the age of authoritarian politics and disaster capitalism.Historical Materialism Conference “Claps of Thunder: Disaster Communism, Extinction Capitalism and How to Survive Tomorrow” – London SOAS,  7-10 November 2019
Lise Sedrez“Climate Denialism: The Brazilian Experience”. Tuesday Discussion at Rachel Carson Centre, LMU, Munich, 28 January 2020
Lise Sedrez“La voce della foresta urbana: esperienze di storia orale per storia ambientale urbana nel ‘Morro da Babilonia’, Rio de Janeiro”.New Methodologies for the Study of Oral History, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, 3 February 2020
Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Ethemcan Turhan, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, Ayşem Mert, Ashley Dawson, Various presentationsOCC! Workshop “Contesting Loss & Damage – Urban climate justice, grassroots organizations and radical adaptation” at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm (Sweden), 5-6 March 2020. 
Ayşem MertClimate futures workshop, Linkoping/Online, 15-16 March 2020
Ethemcan TurhanBaşka Bir Kayıp ve Zarar Siyasetini Aramak: Kentsel İklim Adaleti ve İstanbul (Searching for another politics of loss and damage: Urban climate justice and Istanbul)Istanbul Policy Center – Climate Café Talks, 22 April, 2020
Salvatore Paolo De Rosa  (with Jevgeny BluwsteinApartheid Ecologies and Dystopian FuturesThe Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguratio, Brighton, UK, 24-26 June 2020
Marco ArmieroDismantling the Wasteocene. Toxic Narratives vs Commoning Practices at the Peripheries of Capitalist Modernity LiFE 2020 Conference Lucania Between Film and Ecology. Bodies, Environments, Representations, Matera, Italy,  14-1 July 2020
Salvatore Paolo De Rosa with Julie SzeConversation on the role of environment, politics, inequalities, and calls for justiceSTREAMS CONFERENCE 2020, Stockholm, 7 August 2020
Marco ArmieroMarco Armiero interviewed Prof. Felipe Milanez and Prof. Kathleen Brosnan on sustainable academiaSTREAMS CONFERENCE 2020, Stockholm, 7 August 2020
Marco Armiero Tell the Story. Trauma as an Environmental Issue. Or, The Personal Is Ecopolitical At the course Entangled Emergencies. Theories (and Stories) to Think with the Virus. An Environmental Humanities Approach, University of North Caroline Chapel Hill, October 2020
Salvatore Paolo De RosaThree-lesson module on urban climate justice and activism in the Political Ecology course 2020 for master studentsEnvironmental Humanities Labs, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, August- October 2020
Marco Armiero, Ashley Dawson and Aurash KhawarzadHow to do your People’s climate plan with Occupy Climate Change!Online, 19 January 2021
Marco Armiero, Lise Sedres and Salvatore Paolo De RosaOCC! The project; presentation of the five case studies and the frame of the projectOnline, 22 March 2021
Ashley DawsonStorytelling Climate Futures
Part 1
Part 2
Online, 23 March 2021
The lab (EHL), Julie Sze and Robert GioielliOccupy your courseOnline, 26 March 2021
Aurash Khawarzad, Yates McKee, Ashley Dawson, Maria Federica Palestino and Gilda Berruti1000 People’s climate PlansOnline, 29 March 2021
Ethemcan TurhanLost and Found? Reclaiming the Climate Just City in IstanbulIstanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City, April 8–11, 2021
Lise Sedrez“Creating New Social-Ecological Landscapes”
Course Global Environmental History, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Online 6 May 2021
Lise SedrezBabilonia Lives: Research, Reforestation and Survival Strategies in a Copacabana favela.”Undisciplining environmental humanities seminar series, Environmental Humanities Laboratory/KTH, Stockholm, Online, 8 June 2021
Roberta Biasillo A People’s Green New Deal- Schuman Centre Seminar SeriesRobert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Online, 17 June 2021
Lise SedrezRoundtable “Undisciplining Environmental Humanities”.Streams Transformative Environmental Humanities Digital Conference, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 3 August 2021
Lise Sedrez“Os Modernos Rios Cariocas”.History and Urban Cultures Series, IPPUR/Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, 26 November 2021
Lise Sedrez“The rivers of Rio de Janeiro: urban nature at work in the early 20th century”5th Online Minisymposium, Centre for Environmental History ZUG, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna,
9 December 2021
Marco Armiero, Anja Moum RieserOnline winter school for early career researchers OCC! Winter school 2022Online, hosted by Environmental Humanities Labs, 21-22 January and 11-12 February 2022

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Public Engagement

VenueDate Title
New York7 February 2018The Unauthorized Plans for New York
New York9 February 2018Ashley Dawson was invited to the Laura Flanders TV show in NYC, on an episode focused on urban adaptation to the climate emergency
Stockholm20 February 2018Can Cities Change the World?
New York26 October 2018Energy Sovereignty in New York City and Beyond
New York28 September 2018Rethinking Food Justice in New York City
Ponticelli23 November 2018Walking exploration from the main train station to the urban garden of Ponticelli (co-organized with Ecologie Politiche del Presente)
Stockholm24 November 2018CrossCuts – Stockholm Environmental Humanities Festival for Film & Text 2018 – Sea Tomorrow (screening)
New YorkNovember 2018Urban Future
Naples13 December 2018Roundtable on rebel cities and the challenges of climate change (with public officials from Naples, Rome and Barcelona 
Naples 2018-2019The perception of climate change in the city of Naples– A school-work interchange program at the high school Mercalli in Naples.  
Naples2018-2019Five focus groups have been held in Naples with different kinds of environmentalist associations (WWF, Legambiente, Fare Decrescita, Kaos, and a general one with the participation of several NGOs)
Naples 9 April 2019Marco Armiero did a teach-out in Piazza San Domenico at a Fridays For Future class in the street event
Milano 23-26 May 2019Salvatore Paolo De Rosa was invited as coordinator of the working table “Ecologie” at the About at city 2019, organized by Fondazione Feltrinelli
Naples2-5 October 2019Workshop on OCC! – “Life vs Capital – Scuola di formazione per climate strikers“ ( all recordings here)
Naples5-6 October 2019The Neapolitan team participated at the second national meeting of Fridays for Future Movement in Naples
16th Istanbul Biennal26 October 2019The seventh continent – Digestion
New York16 November 2019Book launch of A People’s Climate Plan for NYC?, followed by a discussion about the prospects for popular climate planning in New York City, featuring remarks by Kendra Krueger, Aurash Khawarzad, Alicia Grullón, Ashley Dawson, Alexis Mena, and more
Rio de Janeiro9 July 2020Lecture by Lise Sedrez “Meio Ambiente, Cidades e Crise”, Ciclo de Lives – Brasil: Reflexões & Análises Históricas. Instituto de História/UFRJ
Venice 8-12 September 2020Marco Armiero organized events on decolonizing political ecology within the Venice Climate Camp, interviewing Felipe Milanez and Malcom Ferdinand 
Rio de Janeiro17 November 2020Course Module: “Módulo VI: Direito à cidade e ao meio ambiente”. Percurso Formativo de Desenvolvimento Comunitário: pensando o Brasil nas periferias. Departamento Nacional SESC,. (Course to public servants working in vulnerable communities)
Rio de Janeiro24 November 2020Lecture by Lise Sedrez“Entre queimadas, boiadas e esgotos: por que estudar História Ambiental no Brasil?”. História Presente – LPPE em tempos de COVID-19. LPPE-IFCH/UERJ
Stockholm6 December 2020Experiencing many losses: Climate Change and the pandemic with Ayşem Mert at HOMEWARD BOUND: THE CLIMATE SESSIONS
Stockholm11 June 2021How are you feeling? How’s the weather? Politics, emotions, and climate change in post-pandemic life, with Ayşem Mert at Stockholm Rotary Club
Rio de Janeiro26 November 2021Lecture with Lise Sedrez & José Augusto Padua, “História Ambiental: uma introdução”. Laboratório História e Natureza. IH-UFRJ.

Theses written within the OCC! project

* Articles found in the OCC repository.