Abstract
The open access journal “Third World Approaches to International Law" (TWAILR) published the speech I gave in Amsterdam in 2022 for the event “Radical Imagining of Just and Green Futures” organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam @uva_amsterdam
Inspired by environmental psychology, and the experiences of the open-pit coal exploitation in La Guajira and the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands, in this speech I introduced a new concept: “social cognitive dissonance” to give it a name and explain the contradictory emotions and discomfort that people feel when they live in environments of unsustainable economic growth.
Context of the event:
What will the world be like after a just transition?
This was the central question of the closing event of the Sustainable Global Economic Law Summer School organized by the University of Amsterdam, where I had the pleasure of participating as a guest speaker together with Usha Natarajan (Edward W Said Fellow at Columbia University), Ivana Isailović Isailovic (assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam), the activist Pippi van Ommen and the writer Anne Hofstra.
The closing event was a women's panel held at Mediamatic (Amsterdam) that envisioned a collective future from the perspectives of energy transition, sustainability, gender inequalities, law, activism and the arts.
Our audience was made up of a group of brilliant emerging scholars from Brazil, the Netherlands, the United States, India, Jordan, Italy, Ecuador and Amsterdam residents interested in sustainability issues.
For this occasion, I prepared a special speech using storytelling, interdisciplinary observations, and powerful images to convey my message. During my speech, I shared what fundamental issues and events influenced me to work in the field of energy law.
Inspired by environmental psychology, and the experiences of the open-pit coal exploitation in La Guajira and the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands, in this speech I introduced a new concept: “social cognitive dissonance” to give it a name and explain the contradictory emotions and discomfort that people feel when they live in environments of unsustainable economic growth.
Context of the event:
What will the world be like after a just transition?
This was the central question of the closing event of the Sustainable Global Economic Law Summer School organized by the University of Amsterdam, where I had the pleasure of participating as a guest speaker together with Usha Natarajan (Edward W Said Fellow at Columbia University), Ivana Isailović Isailovic (assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam), the activist Pippi van Ommen and the writer Anne Hofstra.
The closing event was a women's panel held at Mediamatic (Amsterdam) that envisioned a collective future from the perspectives of energy transition, sustainability, gender inequalities, law, activism and the arts.
Our audience was made up of a group of brilliant emerging scholars from Brazil, the Netherlands, the United States, India, Jordan, Italy, Ecuador and Amsterdam residents interested in sustainability issues.
For this occasion, I prepared a special speech using storytelling, interdisciplinary observations, and powerful images to convey my message. During my speech, I shared what fundamental issues and events influenced me to work in the field of energy law.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Third World Approaches to International Law - TWAIL |
| Publication status | Published - 13-May-2024 |
Keywords
- energy transition
- just energy transition
- renewable energy
- climate change