In this talk, co-organised by the Real Republica Bota-Abaixo, we will discuss the interconnections between the Carnation Revolution and the ecological question. With researchers from ECOSOC - CES's Ecology and Society Lab, Lucia Fernandes and Jonas Van Vossole will talk about the different environmental conflicts that preceded and followed the revolution, the historical-environmental development of capitalism in Portugal and what the values and experiences of April mean for today's climate and environmental challenges.

Bio notes
Lúcia Fernandes is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and a member of the Ecology and Society Lab (ECOSOC, CES). Fernandes seeks to connect with living beings, territories and struggles, where networks of care and co-production of shared knowledge play a central role, and proposes to think about the articulation of research with outreach and teaching activities. Fernandes has been working in the transdisciplinary area that links the environment, health and citizen mobilisation, with methodologies and pedagogies geared towards the process of meeting and co-producing knowledge with different stakeholders.

Jonas Van Vossole is a Belgian Marxist economist, political scientist and sociologist. His main research themes are democratic theory, social movements, labour, Marxism and political ecology. He is currently an FCT researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, co-coordinator of the Ecology and Society Lab (ECOSOC) and regional coordinator of the Portuguese Political Economy Association. He has carried out action research on the movements of European assemblies against austerity, trade unions and climate protests.