Climate Justice in the Majority World

Vulnerability, Resistance and Diverse Knowledges

Neil J.W. Crawford, Kavya Michael, Michael Mikulewicz, Neil J.W. Crawford, Kavya Michael, Michael Mikulewicz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000921311
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World – where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The collection brings together 12 chapters featuring the work of over 30 authors from around the globe.

The impacts of climate change are disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and countries in the Majority World who historically have contributed little to rising global temperatures. The 12 chapters focus on a range of cross-cutting themes, demonstrating both individual and collective experiences of climate change and struggles for achieving climate justice from the Majority World. This includes activism, resistance, and social movement organizing in India and Brazil; lived experiences and understandings of frontline communities in Bangladesh and South Africa; consequences of and responses to disasters in Mozambique and Puerto Rico; and contested accounts, narratives, and futures in the Maldives and Pakistan, among other topics.

By adopting a decolonial lens, this book provides rich empirical content, insightful comparisons, and novel conceptual interventions. It foregrounds climate justice from an intersectional perspective and contributes to the ongoing efforts by scholars and activists to address epistemic injustice in climate change research, policy, and practice. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate-level students, academics, activists, policymakers, and members of the public concerned with the impacts and inequalities of climate change in the Majority World.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Climate Justice beyond the Minority World – Towards Decolonial Knowledges
• 1 Southern Climate Justice Activism in the Context of an Energy Transition: Forest Rights over Coal in Mahan, Central India
• 2 Extreme Climatic Events and Climate Change Policies: A Call for Climate Justice Action in Mozambique
• 3 The Intersection of Climate Justice and Agroecology in Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Maria: Voices from the Ground
• 4 ‘I was poor before, but Cyclone Amphan left me destitute’: Disaster Displacement and Support in Bangladesh
• 5 The Green Climate Fund as an Elaborate Scheme of Generating Social Harms
• 6 Climate Justice in Latin America: Mapping the Key Emerging Debates
• 7 Socioecological Conflicts and Resistances: The Platformization of Climate Justice Activism in Brazil
• 8 Resisting Dispossession and Destruction: Climate (In)justice and Wind Extraction Frontier in the Postcolonial Indian State
• 9 The Marginality of the Plainland Indigenous Communities in Climate Change Plans and Finance in Bangladesh
• 10 Ethical Dimensions of Climate and Environmental Issues in Pakistani Media
• 11 Socioecological Entanglements, Invasive Ecology, and Climate Injustice: A Story of Cape Town, South Africa
• 12 Resisting Narratives of Future Foreclosure: Rethinking Adaptation and Resilience in Favour of Climate Justice in the Maldives
• Conclusion: Towards Justice in Climate Justice Research – Feedback from Chapter Contributors
• Index