Climate Justice in the Majority World

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.

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Neil J. W. Crawford is a research fellow in climate action and member of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds, UK. Their research focuses on forced migration and displacement, refugee rights, climate justice, and the inequalities of climate change, gender and sexuality, and cities.

Kavya Michael is an environmental-social scientist at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Her research broadly examines environmental change and energy-related issues through a human rights and justice lens. She studies the multiple intersections of climate change, urban inequality, informality, and inter- and intraregional migration with a focus on the Global South.

Michael Mikulewicz is an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF). Michael is a human geographer who applies critical theory to study issues of climate and environmental (in)justice, adaptation, and urban sustainability.

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Introduction: Climate Justice beyond the Minority World Towards Decolonial Knowledges

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

1. Southern Climate Justice Activism in the Context of an Energy Transition: Forest Rights over Coal in Mahan, Central India

Ruchira Talukdar and Priya Pillai

2. Extreme Climatic Events and Climate Change Policies:A Call for Climate Justice Action in Mozambique

José Maria do Rosário Chilaúle Langa, Natacha Bruna, Boaventura Monjane, Giverage do Amaral, Elton Augusto da Amélia Fé, Bento Paulo Rafael, Patricia Walker, and Patricia E. Perkins

3. The Intersection of Climate Justice and Agroecology in Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Maria: Voices from the Ground

Thelma I. Vélez

4. 'I was poor before, but Cyclone Amphan left me destitute': Disaster Displacement and Support in Bangladesh

Neil J. W. Crawford, Siddiqur Rahman, Tanzina Nazia, Sennan David Mattar, and Ukegbu Uwa Kalu

5. The Green Climate Fund as an Elaborate Scheme of Generating Social Harms

Jessica Omukuti and Aidan O'Sullivan

6. Climate Justice in Latin America: Mapping the Key Emerging Debates

Lira Luz Benites Lazaro, Zenaida Luisa Lauda-Rodriguez, Susanne Böerner, Andrea Lampis, and Leandro Luiz Giatti

7. Socioecological Conflicts and Resistances: The Platformization of Climate Justice Activism in Brazil

Caio Penko Teixeira

8. Resisting Dispossession and Destruction: Climate (In)justice and Wind Extraction Frontier in the Postcolonial Indian State

David Singh

9. The Marginality of the Plainland Indigenous Communities in Climate Change Plans and Finance in Bangladesh

Siddiqur Rahman and A. K. M. Mamunur Rashid

10. Ethical Dimensions of Climate and Environmental Issues in Pakistani Media

Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, Sadia Jamil, and Bushra Hameedur Rahman

11. Socioecological Entanglements, Invasive Ecology, and Climate Injustice: A Story of Cape Town, South Africa

Grace D. O'Donovan

12. Resisting Narratives of Future Foreclosure: Rethinking Adaptation and Resilience in Favour of Climate Justice in the Maldives

Africa Bauzà Garcia-Arcicollar

Conclusion: Towards Justice in Climate Justice Research Feedback from Chapter Contributors

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

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