227 – The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (feat. Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal)

Cultures of Energy

Cymene communes with Californian nature (slugs and all) on this edition of the podcast. Then (14:33) we welcome Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal to the podcast to talk about their amazing project, the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC). The CICC aims to put the law itself on trial by creating new laws and juridical mechanisms capable of actually holding states and corporations to account for their role in the climate emergency. We discuss Radha’s pathbreaking book, What’s Wrong with Rights? and how it traces modern rights discourse back to colonial principles and institutions. Jonas explains how organizational art can advance the cause of emancipatory politics through experiments like the CICC. Finally, we explore how it helps the climate struggle to understand that we have never left the colonial period and its pioneering military industrial and corporate state forms of governance. Please check out their book detailing our alternative legal framework and judgements:

https://framerframed.nl/en/dossier/boekwinkel-selectie-court-for-intergenerational-climate-crimes/

And here is the main link to the public hearings of the next iteration of the CICC happening right now in London, The British East India Company on Trial:

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/court-for-intergenerational-climate-crimes-cicc/

Hang in there, everyone, peace and love.