Climate Justice in a Climate Changed World

Porter, Libby; Rickards, Lauren; Verlie, Blanche; Bosomworth, Karyn; Moloney, Susie; Lay, Bronwyn; Latham, Ben; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Pellow, David N.

doi:10.1080/14649357.2020.1748959

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“…Often the labor of raising awareness about marginalization and oppression falls on those who are experiencing it. Therefore, amplifying the voices and stories of marginalized peoples, as well as the particular knowledge systems underpinning them, can be one way of creating space and engaging in right relations-recognizing that making space for others implies giving up some of the space we as non-Indigenous researchers currently enjoy (Porter et al 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Seeking to uncover the nature of this relationship, a growing number of scholars argue that climate change can be seen as a form and product of colonialism. They argue that the mindset that gave way for the exploitation of 'distant Others' during colonization is the same mindset responsible for wreaking havoc on ecosystems and the global climate (Baldwin and Erickson 2020;Davis and Todd 2017;Dhillon 2018;Porter et al 2020;Whyte 2017). This is especially so due to the strong link between colonialism and capitalism, with colonialism paving the way for capitalism to emerge through the exploitation of natural resources and cheap or forced labor.…”

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Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’

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Climate change has been conceptualized as a form and a product of colonization. In this perspective, it becomes important to base climate change adaptation and transformation efforts on decolonizing practices and imaginaries. A central aspect of decolonization is contained in the Indigenous conceptualization of relationality. Exploring how decolonization and relationality might form the foundation for transformations research, we engage with the concept of ‘right relations’. In the context of this inquiry, we take ‘right relations’ to mean an obligation to live up to the responsibilities involved when taking part in a relationship—be it to other humans, other species, the land or the climate. We begin the paper by bringing together the literature on climate change adaptation, transformation and decolonization to show their interconnections and emphasize the need to engage with all three when talking about sustainability. Second, we invoke the idea of ‘right relations’ to address how non-Indigenous transformation researchers can further the process of decolonization as part of their research. Third, we offer insights from our own research experience with narrative practices to help exemplify how transformation researchers in all disciplines might embody ‘right relations’ centered around four characteristics: listening deeply, self-reflexivity, creating space and being in action. Embodying ‘right relations’ is a continuous process of becoming with no end point, and we do not wish to suggest that we hold the answers. Instead, we reflect on our role in this process and hope for these words to open a dialogue about how we might move towards a ‘decolonized humanity’. We suggest that willingness to be affected and altered by the process of reciprocal collaborations is key to imagining decolonial ways of being and that this in turn can be a powerful manner of generating equitable and sustainable transformations.

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2021

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“…Further, Camus invites us to consider pestilence and pandemic as a heuristic for complex and constantly unfolding phenomena that cause suffering. In an era where climate change and the spectre of ecological collapse are escalating these dynamics (Porter et al, 2020), the invitation to consider pestilence as an interpretive lens beyond Covid-19 and the phenomena it manifests is compelling. Surprisingly little of the scholarship surrounding The Plague has focused on the text's relationship with place, 2 although it engages with pestilence in a deeply emplaced way.…”

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Pestilence in Planning: Why Camus is a Beacon for Our Times

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2021

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“…For instance, in majority Black areas in Washington, DC, ecological harm and racism need to be understood in conjunction with housing justice and climate justice, as shown by Ranganathan and Bratman (2019), requiring an ethics of care as part of a radical politics. Such coalition building goes hand in hand with what Anguelovki and Pellow call “an ethic of indispensability” (p. 18), welcoming the diversity of actors and agency in building just climate futures (Porter et al, 2020).…”

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Multispecies justice: Climate‐just futures with, for and beyond humans

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In 2019, the climate emergency entered mainstream debates. The normative frame of climate justice as conceived in academia, policy arenas, and grassroots action, although imperative and growing in popularity across climate movements, is no longer adequate to address this emergency. This is for two reasons: first, as a framing for the problem, current notions of climate justice are insufficient to overcome the persistent silencing of voices belonging to multiple “others”; and second, they do not question, and thus implicitly condone, human exceptionalism and the violence it enacts, historically and in this era of the Anthropocene. Therefore, we advocate for the concept of multispecies justice to enrich climate justice in order to more effectively confront the climate crisis. The advantage of reconceptualizing climate justice in this way is that it becomes more inclusive; it acknowledges the differential histories and practices of social, environmental, and ecological harm, while opening just pathways into uncertain futures. A multispecies justice lens expands climate justice by decentering the human and by recognizing the everyday interactions that bind individuals and societies to networks of close and distant others, including other people and more‐than‐human beings. Such a relational lens provides a vital scientific, practical, material, and ethical road map for navigating the complex responsibilities and politics in the climate crisis. Most importantly, it delineates what genuine flourishing could mean, what systemic transformations may involve (and with whom), how to live with inevitable and possibly intolerable losses, and how to prefigure and enact alternative and just futures. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice

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Climate Justice in a Climate Changed World

Cited by 98 publications

References 33 publications

Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’

Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’

Pestilence in Planning: Why Camus is a Beacon for Our Times

Multispecies justice: Climate‐just futures with, for and beyond humans

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