Political Economy Futures Forum

Abstract: "Rosa Luxemburg and I is a Brechtian collage of monologue, poetry and prose/poem that argues for the ways in which poetic syntax can activate political agency for the purposes of new political economies and climate revolution. This is posited within an adaptation frame, where the historical figure as spectre supports eco-socialist climate reflections and critiques internalised, multi-vocal, neoliberal capitalist preoccupations. In the tension between these poetic strands, the interdisciplinary creative process illuminates adaptation as a political and social transformational tool towards ecological economic goals.

Historical figure and socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, stands as a compelling vector from which to consider liberation of the contemporary self from the current political economy and both psychological and material anthropogenic infrastructures. Engaging Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, I argue that climate inertia and inaction can be viewed as a series of oppressions within and without of the self that require a pedagogic process of critical consciousness for liberation. I demonstrate how creative writing and arts-based research enquiry, can envelop transdisciplinary concerns, employ emotional methodologies, and initiate new mental ecologies that inspire revolutionary impulses via micro-social performance events. Finally, I contend that arts-practice research affords interdisciplinary endeavours a vital space to contemplate new and different kinds of research, alongside new and different kinds of politics. "

First published: 12 February 2026