Care and critique in Kollapscamp

Kollapscamp may well turn out to be a significant moment in movement history, with the climate scene evolving into new forms to meet the new realities of ‘long emergency’. At the same time – and very much relatedly – the camp was a physical and social space with real people bringing varied and sometimes rivalrous motivations, identities and needs.As the camp packed up, I caught up with Scully to discuss both parts of that work. Internal tension is pretty much a certainty in any gathering of this scale and ambition, but it’s rare to find such a lucid example of those tensions being raised and processed – and even rarer to debrief it all with one of the core organisers! If you want an understanding of what holding a serious movement space looks like in 2025, and/or a snapshot of the complicated collapse-politics constituency, stay tuned. Editor’s note: we talk a bit about Tadzio Mueller, one of the Camp’s foremost organisers alongside Scully, and a pre-eminent voice communicator on collapse politics. He’s been a significant social movement presence in Germany since the early noughties, involved in alter-globalisation activism, LGBT struggles, and the climate movement – notably helping to set up Ende Gelande. To get a direct sense of his inimitable style , check out his collapse pitch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XODlnqPvpv8 How we’re feeling at the end of campWhat the camp’s aims were and if it met themMinor tensions in the campThe critique sessionThe contested place of Tadzio MuellerAccessibility questionsHow racial diversity can come down to moneyHow racial diversity can have deeper rootsComparing Just Collapse to Deep AdaptationThe wider marketplace of collapse politics projectsThe importance of cultures of care in collapse Some further reflections on the camp from its organising team: https://steady.page/en/friedlichesabotage/posts/7323dbfe-5ce4-421f-b9f1-3a7922201ef7 End music: people at Les Résistantes singing Le Pieu, a Basque song of collective resistancehttps://www.lesglottesrebelles.com/le-pieu/ Follow me on Bluesky @douglasrogers.bsky.social‬ or Twitter at @writingDouglas if you're into that kind of thing