Global speaker, author and essayist Bayo Akomolafe talks with climate-change youth activist and researcher Elouise Mayall about climate crisis, coloniality, the subjectivisation of modernity and generative ways forward to tackle the posthumanist challenge confronting us all.
This conversation was recorded to support the publication of Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change, a collection of essays by counsellors, coaches and psychologists, edited by Linda Aspey, Catherine Jackson and Diane Parker, and published by PCCS Books in 2023. www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/holding-the-hope
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Bayo Akomolafe is a celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual and essayist. He is author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my daughter on humanity’s search for home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The lions of Africa speak. Bayo is founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the post-activist course/festival/event ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. Among many honorary appointments, he is a Member of the Club of Rome, a Fellow for the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, and an Ambassador for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.
Elouise Mayall is a climate activist with the UK Youth Climate Coalition, whose mission is to mobilise and empower young people to take positive action for global climate justice. She has a particular interest in climate anxiety in children and young people and is a co-author of a 2021 quantitative global study published on the topic in the journal Lancet Planetary Health. Outside of activism, Elouise is a Ph.D. student at the University of Aberdeen, researching Northern goshawk dispersal behaviour.
