Solidarity in Climate/Immigrant Justice Direct Action: Lessons from Movements in the US South

Black, Sara; Milligan, Richard; Heynen, Nik

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12341

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“…However, we argue that by using the abstract concept of future generations, most of this debate has de-humanized and partly distanced itself from today’s children as subjects in relation to the climate crisis. Even in the cases where today’s youth are addressed, scholars find that climate justice/resistance movements have problems in achieving an inclusive environment (Thomas Black et al, 2016) – although there are examples of successful involvement of marginalized youth in certain climate change adaptation efforts (MacDonald et al, 2015). Ignoring today’s children in discussions of intergenerational justice is problematic.…”

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Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Holmberg

Alvinius

2021

Current Sociology

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This article proposes that children constitute a new climate precariat. This conceptualization contributes to a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of the vulnerability of children in relation to the climate crisis. Previous literature tends to treat climate change in an abstract fashion that renders today’s children invisible. Climate precarity consists of three main elements of vulnerability: temporality problems, insecurity and an identity vacuum. In relation to temporality and security, children are suffering from the potential loss of a sustainable future, which spurs the need for urgent action and constant consciousness – in the present. World leaders’ inaction creates an uncertainty regarding whom should be held responsible for taking action in guaranteeing children the future which climate change is at risk of depriving them. The concept of climate precarity could be used to explain children’s collective action in relation to the climate crisis. Children’s concerns in relation to the climate crisis suggest that agency and empowerment are spurred through their resistance towards these vulnerabilities.

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Section: Literature Review: Precarity In Previous Researchmentioning

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Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Holmberg

Alvinius

2021

Current Sociology

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“…We do not make this argument to suggest that youth need ‘saving’ or are unable to advocate for themselves (Steinberger, 2022). Rather, we look to youth—and particularly youth of colour and Indigenous young people 2 —because they have long worked and organised in often unacknowledged ways in grassroots communities, in the courts, streets and schools (see, for instance, Dembicki, 2018; Indigenous Climate Action's Youth Needs Assessment, 2020; Thomas Black et al, 2016). While we do not intend to homogenise youth or to assume a universal investment in climate action, youth have more recently been profiled on the global stage as they demand intersectional actions across all levels of society for social, environmental, and indeed, climate justice (see Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, 2022; Youth4Climate Manifesto, 2021).…”

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Youth and climate justice: Representations of young people in action for sustainable futures

Sloan Morgan,

Melchior,

Thomas

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Geographical Journal

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From fossil fuel corporations sponsoring climate change education to youth‐washing international gatherings, young people are bombarded, and simultaneously abandoned, by struggles for climate justice. The root issues fuelling interlocking environmental and social crises are often erased in initiatives involving youth. These crises are a direct result of broader, structural conditions that have become the de facto global order and propel notions of sustainable development. In settler colonial contexts such as Canada, colonialism, capitalism and inequitable forms of violence mutually depend upon one another to perpetuate climate injustice. Youth are increasingly aware of these entanglements, while seemingly discouraged from transformative action. With these tensions in mind, this commentary investigates the obstacles youth face despite making key contributions to justice‐focused climate action, and draws attention to the necessity of strengthening meaningful youth engagement. To explore this issue, we engage with climate and environmental justice literature, youth‐led initiatives, and youth representation on a global stage.

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“…In 2013, the national organizations, Sierra Club and 350.org released statements expressing solidarity with immigrant justice (Black et al 2016).…”

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Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest

Slocum

2018

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The collective politics of climate justice makes the important claim that lowering emissions is not enough; society must also undertake radical transformation to address both the climate and inequality crises. Owing to its roots in the environmental justice movement, addressing systemic racism is central to climate justice praxis in the United States, which is a necessary intervention in typically technocratic climate politics. What emerges from US climate justice is a moral appeal to ‘relationship’ as politics, the procedural demand that communities of color (the ‘frontline’) lead the movement, and a distributive claim on carbon pricing revenue. However, this praxis precludes a critique of racial capitalism, the process that relies on structural racism to enhance accumulation, alienating, exploiting, and immiserating black, brown, and white, while carrying out ecocide. The lack of an analysis of how class and race produce the crises climate justice confronts prevents the movement from demanding that global north fossil fuel abolition occur in tandem with the reassertion of the public over the private and de-growth. Drawing on research conducted primarily in Oregon and Washington, I argue that race works to both create and limit the transformative possibilities of climate politics.

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Solidarity in Climate/Immigrant Justice Direct Action: Lessons from Movements in the US South

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Youth and climate justice: Representations of young people in action for sustainable futures

Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest

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