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ON THE EMERGENCE OF AN ECOLOGICAL CLASS - BRUNO...

Under what conditions could ecology  instead of being one cluster of movements among others 
organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the
political horizon in the way that liberalism  socialism  conservatism and other political
ideologies have done at various times and places? What can ecology learn from history about how
new political movements emerge  and how they win the struggle for ideas long before they
translate their ideas into parties and elections? In this short text  consisting of seventy-six
talking points  Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz argue that if the ecological movement is to
gain ideological consistency and autonomy it must offer a political narrative that recognises 
embraces and effectively represents its project in terms of social conflict. Political ecology
must accept that it brings along division. It must provide a convincing cartography of the
conflicts it generates and  based on this  it must try to define a common horizon of collective
action. In order to represent and describe these conflicts  Latour and Schultz propose to reuse
the old notions of 'class' and 'class struggle'  albeit infused with a new meaning in line with
the ecological concerns of our New Climate Regime. Advancing the idea of a new ecological class
assembled by its collective interests in fighting the logic of production and safeguarding our
planet's conditions of habitability  they ask: how can a proud and self-aware ecological class
emerge and take effective action to shape our collective future?

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