The climate crisis is accelerating, but efforts to address it through ‘green transition’ policies often reflect a ‘business as usual’ approach, perpetuating the same capitalist logic and deepening global inequalities. This dynamic is also visible on the European periphery – particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and neighboring Serbia – where lithium extraction projects are planned to supply raw materials for electric vehicle battery production and the arms industry in the centre, while disregarding the concerns about the social and ecological damage and the livelihoods of entire communities.
It is evident that addressing the global climate crisis requires radical systemic change. How can production and work be organised around social needs and ecological limits rather than endless profit accumulation? How can land, energy, housing and public services be taken out of the logic of commodification? What forms of collective control are needed over the decisions that shape our lives and environments? How can struggles for social and ecological justice build alliances across borders, sectors and communities? And how can social movements, workers, communities and political actors turn resistance into lasting political power?
The EcoSoc Conference in Sarajevo aims to put these questions up for dialogue between activists, academics, workers, scholars and political actors from South East Europe and other regions of the world. It brings different theoretical and conceptual approaches to ecosocialism into conversation with concrete political practices and explores how social movements, trade unions, communities, political actors and international networks can build power together.
Program of EcoSoc Conference Sarajevo: https://rosalux.rs/ecosocconf/
EcoSoc Conference Sarajevo: Da budućnost opet bude naša: ekosocijalističke strategije
8.–10. 10. 2026., Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina.
Klimatska kriza ubrzava, ali nastojanja da se na nju odgovori putem politika „zelene tranzicije“ koje odražavaju pristup „ne talasaj“, cementiraju istu staru kapitalističku logiku i produbljuju globalne nejednakosti. Ta dinamika vidljiva je i na europskoj periferiji – naročito u Bosni i Hercegovini i susjednoj Srbiji – gdje su u planu projekti vađenja litija u svrhu proizvodnje akumulatora za električna vozila te za potrebe namjenske industrije u centru, pri čemu se zanemaruje društvena i ekološka šteta i egzistencija cijelih zajednica.
Jasno je da odgovor na globalnu klimatsku krizu zahtijeva radikalne sistemske promjene. Kako možemo proizvodnju i rad organizirati oko društvenih potreba i ekoloških limita a ne beskrajne akumulacije profita? Kako možemo zemlju, energiju, stanovanje i javne usluge oteti logici komodifikacije? Koji su nam oblici kolektivne kontrole nad odlukama koje oblikuju naše živote i okoliš potrebni? Kako u borbi za društvenu i ekološku pravdu graditi savezništva koja prelaze granice te okupljaju različite sektore i zajednice? I kako da društveni pokreti, radništvo, zajednice i politički akteri otpor pretvore u trajnu političku moć?
EcoSoc Conference Sarajevo otvara ova pitanja kao temu za dijalog između aktivista, akademika, radnika, naučnika i političkih aktera iz Jugoistočne Europe i drugih dijelova svijeta. Ona dovodi različite teorijske i konceptualne pristupe ekosocijalizmu u dijalog s konkretnim političkim praksama te ispituje na koji način društveni pokreti, sindikati, zajednice, politički akteri i međunarodne mreže mogu zajedno graditi moć.
Program EcoSoc Conference Sarajevo: https://rosalux.rs/ecosocconf/
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