Jed Purdy

Nature and Nationalism in the Age of Trump

Friday 11 May, 2018
6pm, $0

New York Institute for the Humanities — 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor

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How did a 'War on Coal' come to stand for an existential fight among Americans, and between different ideas of the country? How did we move from a band of self-styled 'patriots' occupying a wildlife refuge in Oregon in 2015 to the President stripping protection from national monuments in 2017 - with support from those same 'patriots'? How does denial of climate change hold together various other denials - of interdependence, ecological limits, and global justice? What images of the natural world, and the human place in it, are entangled in the politics of Donald Trump's presidency and the nationalist right?

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