Progressive Visions of Peace and Justice: Ukraine and Palestine in a Militarised and Capitalist World Order
19.01. @ 14:30 – 15:30
The so-called liberal world order has run into a systemic crisis caused by the on-going abhorrent wars and the return of crude geopolitics. The double standards, civilizational binaries, and modes of economic domination that have always harboured within liberal globalisation are now running loose. In this moment, it is crucial to analyse the role of on-going wars in the crisis and reproduction of hegemonic orders, and to envision alternative ‘globals’ arising from the tapestry of interconnected civil movements and struggles for peace and justice.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. – A Gramsci
Yuliya Yurchenko is a senior lecturer in political economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute at the University of Greenwich (UK). Her research focuses on state/society/capital complexes, transnational class formation, and on political economy of Ukraine and the “post-Soviet space”. She is the author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (London: Pluto Press, 2018) and other publications, including in Capital and Class and New Political Economy. She is Chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network Board (European Sociological Association), and editor for Capital and Class and Global Political Economy.
Antti Tarvainen is a researcher at the foundation of the Finnish Institute in the Middle East and a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. In his research Antti examines the entanglements between settler colonialism and innovation economy in the global landscapes of Palestine/Israel. His empirical sites of study range from Palestine/Israel to Silicon Valley and to the Gulf countries. Theoretically Antti’s work moves between settler colonial, relational and critical theory.
Mia Haglund is the Secretary General of the Nordic Green Left Alliance and a City Councillor in Helsinki.