The workshop aims to explore the ethics of climate protest, broadly construed. Despite its prominence as an issue of public concern, climate protest remains underexplored in political theory and philosophy. The potential scale of climate change, its global and intergenerational structure and the way it intersects with a range of social vulnerabilities might pose distinctive challenges for established theoretical frames for understanding and evaluating protest. As well as foregrounding philosophical perspectives on the issue, the workshop will draw from empirical work that aims to understand the prospects of success for different forms of action.
