Florin Poenaru

Mar 7, 2024 | berlinergazette.de | Florin Poenaru

Since it is no longer possible to separate urban and climate politics (if it ever was), struggles for the right to the city are actually struggles for a new socio-economic and ecological order on the ruins of the previous mode of spatial production and capital accumulation. Both objects and terrains of eco-political struggle, contemporary cities are laboratories of the collective future, Florin Poenaru argues in his contribution to the “Kin City” series.

Oct 16, 2023 | berlinergazette.de | Florin Poenaru

The moral force of today’s environmental movements seems undeniable. But the very qualities that give them their particular strength and appeal seem to make them resistant to becoming agents of fundamental change, namely the transition from capitalism to eco-socialism, argues anthropologist Florin Poenaru in his “Allied Grounds” video talk, urging us to reassess the political potential of the refugee workforce. This video talk is based on the following article: How Can Declinism Be Politicized?

Oct 11, 2023 | berlinergazette.de | Claudia Núñez |Florin Poenaru |Jennifer Kamau

(Neo)colonial capitalism is bringing about the end of the world. Environmentalists in the Global North urge us to recognize that this dystopian scenario is already looming in the near future. For the oppressed peoples of the Global South, however, the apocalypse has been underway for more than five hundred years.