Wednesday 19 March 2025, 18.00 – 20.00 (GMT) – via Zoom
LMN is delighted to announce our second Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Stefania Barca, who will be speaking about her book Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change (Pluto Press, 2024).
As always, you can attend the event online via Zoom. We are excited to announce that this Book Club is also possible to attend in hybrid format, at the Crossroads Women’s Centre. Stefania Barca will be joining remotely, while our team will be on the spot at the Centre. (More details below.)
About the book:
Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecological justice can only be achieved through working-class struggle.
In Workers of the Earth, Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political ecology of labour to shed new light on the potentiality of workers as ecological subjects. Taking an ecofeminist approach, this ground-breaking book makes a unique contribution to the emerging field of environmental labour studies, expanding the category of labour to include waged and unwaged, industrial and meta-industrial workers.
Going beyond conventional categories of ‘production’ and ‘reproduction’ as separate spheres of human experience, Barca offers a fresh perspective on the place of labour in today’s global climate struggle, reminding us that the fight against climate change is a fight against capitalism.
Stefania will give an introductory lecture which will be followed by a Q&A. You do not need to have read the book to attend this meeting. However, all registered attendees will be sent extracts and materials to read.
About the author:
Stefania Barca is an environmental historian and a feminist political ecologist. She is the author of Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene and of Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, which was awarded the Turku Environmental History Book Prize. Stefania is also Distinguished Researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela and her current research interests cover the environmental impact of industry in the Anthropocene, the relationship between labour and the environment, environmental justice, degrowth and commoning.
How to attend:
You can attend the event online. We are happy to announce that the Crossroads Women’s Centre will host a hybrid event. The venue is fully accessible.
Crossroads Women’s Centre: 25 Wolsey Mews, NW5 2DX
Please tell us in the registration form how you plan to participate, so we can best plan for the hybrid event!
Introductory readings:
Stefania Barca, “The Ecomodernist Dilemma” (excerpt from the book, Pluto Press)
“Workers of the Earth, Unite!” – interview with Stephania Barca (Spectre Journal, October 1, 2024))
“Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology, and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change”: An Interview with Stefania Barca (The Trouble, August 7, 2024)