Fanny Lajarthe

Description
Fanny holds degrees in European Politics (2009, Paris 8; 2011, ULB) and Environmental Science and Management (2016, ULB) and is a PhD student at Sonya. After a dissertation on the fossil fuel divestment movement, she is pursuing her research on climate activism in a thesis supervised by Edwin Zaccai and Tom Bauler. This dissertation is supported by the FNRS through a fellowship (2017-2021) and the Van Buuren-Jaumotte-Demoulin Foundation (2022).

Fields of activities
Fanny's thesis is entitled "Building the Climate Justice Movement in Europe. Infrastructures and processes". It aims to update research on the climate justice movement in Europe, while proposing a conceptualization of "movement building". It is based on an ethnographic and engaged investigation of several years (2017-2021) in two countries (Belgium and Germany), and in transnational activist networks such as Climate Justice Action (CJA). The theoretical registers mobilized in this thesis are multiple, from the sociology of social movements to gender studies, from critical human geography to organizational studies, from social psychology to political science.

Teaching activities

• Supervision of seminars on "Controversies around the exploitation of fossil fuels" and "Interdisciplinary project 1" (2017-2021)
• Co-supervision and participation in thesis juries (2019-2021)

Research projects

• TRANSIT - TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory (2016)
• Thesis - « Building the Climate Justice Movement in Europe. Infrastructures and processes » (2017-2022).

Publications

• Lajarthe F. (2020). Désobéir en masse pour la justice climatique. Ecorev, 1(48). doi: 10.3917/ecorev.048.0061.
• Pelenc J., Wallenborn G., Milanesi J., Sébastien L., Vastenaekels J., Lajarthe F., Ballet J., Cervera-Marzal M., Cariment Rand A., Merveille N., Frère B., (2019). Alternative and resistance movements: The two faces of sustainability transformations? Ecological Economics, 159. 373–378. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.013
• Lajarthe F. & Zaccai, E. (2017), Le mouvement de désinvestissement des énergies fossiles : une nouvelle phase de mobilisation pour le climat?, VertigO. doi : 10.4000/vertigo.18265.

Communications

• Communication “The multi-scalar strategies of the German anti-coal struggle”, Conference at the International Sociological Association, online (February 2021)
• Communication “Towards a More Intersectional Belgian Climate Justice Movement ?”, Conference at the International Sociological Association, online (February 2021)
• Written communication “What does it mean to fight for climate justice? Insights from Climate Justice Camp Belgium”, Conference Alternatives Futures & Popular Protest, online (April 2020)
• Communication « Le mouvement climatique belge: un mouvement de mouvements», Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique (December 2019)
• Written communication "La dimension multiscalaire de la lutte anti-charbon en Allemagne l’exemple du conflit autour de la forêt de Hambach", Convention AFSP, Bordeaux, France (July 2019)
• Written communication "How to be accepted in a large grassroots activist groups?", ECPR-COSMOS Summer School, Florence, Italy (June 2019)
• Seminar on divestment from fossil fuels, SPW, Jambes, Belgique (June 2019)
• Communication "Vers un mouvement européen de désobéissance climatique?", Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles (November 2018)
• Communication "Le mouvement belge de désinvestissement des énergies fossiles", FEF, Bruxelles, Belgique (September 2018)
• Communication "Towards the emergence of a European disobedient movement for climate justice?" , World Congress of Sociology ISA, Toronto, Canada (July 2018).

Mail : fanny.lajarthe@ulb.be
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