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Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Michael, Kavya, 1985, et al.
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INTRODUCTION: Climate Justice beyond the Minority World - Towards Decolonial Knowledges
- 2023
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Ingår i: Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges. - 9781000921298 ; , s. 1-17
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Climate justice emerged in the 1990s within activist and later academic circles as a concept that challenged the mainstream scientific and technocratic discussions around climate change. Climate justice itself was pioneered by social movements in the Minority World, and as such, many studies of its use and application remain focused on countries in Europe and North America. Critiques are calls for decolonizing the thinking around, and actions in response to, climate change, which frequently rest on ‘alternative’ knowledges and values. This chapter provides a brief overview of the state of the art and knowledge gaps in the field of climate justice and explains why there is need to use the term ‘Majority World’ over various alternatives. Despite offering valuable contributions to climate change and justice scholarship, they can often lack the authorship experience and the professional connections needed to gain access to, and be published by, ‘top-tier’ journals and press.
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- Mikulewicz, Michael, et al.
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CONCLUSION: Towards Justice in Climate Justice Research - Feedback from Chapter Contributors
- 2023
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Ingår i: Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges. - 9781000921298 ; , s. 255-263
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter underscores the need for epistemic justice in the climate justice literature that, despite its commitment to equity, still in many ways elevates certain bodies of knowledge over others. Ethnic diversity and discrimination within the Majority World may impose intersectional inequities on some climate justice scholars and the populations they study and partner with. One reflection of the masculinist nature of academia is the relatively low prioritization of community-based research so essential for climate justice knowledge production and the concomitant lack of interest in - and funding for - climate justice-related work among key stakeholders, including governments, media, and many academic circles. Change is urgently needed in how research is funded, how international partnerships operate, how national governments see climate justice issues and those who study them, how research is published, and how scholars across the world communicate.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics
- 2023
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country. A vision of “just transitions” is increasingly being used by activists and groups to ensure that pathways towards sustainable futures are equitable and inclusive. Exploring this concept, this volume provides a feminist study of what it would take to ensure just transitions in India where gender, in relation to its interesting dimensions of power, is at the centre of analysis. With case studies on climate mitigation and adaptation from different parts of India, the book brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers who provide commentary on sectors including agriculture, forestry and renewables. Overall, the book has relevance far beyond India’s borders, as India’s attempt to deal with its diverse population makes it a key litmus test for countries seeking to transition against a backdrop of inequality both in the Global North and South. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate policy, gender studies, sustainable development and development studies more broadly.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Voices from the field: Working for a just climate in India
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 74-92
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, Seema Arora-Jonsson discusses the question of just transitions with a cross section of people working for a better climate in India: a former civil servant and climate negotiator who has long worked with climate issues, a practitioner/activist working on just transitions in an NGO, an activist with a long history in the women’s grassroots movements, a gender activist who has worked extensively with climate change at the international level as well as a networker who maintains a platform for corporations for climate finance. We discuss the context in which transitions are taking place, go on to current policy approaches and its gendered aspects and the structural challenges and barriers of policy approaches to a just transition. In the overarching gloom, we also discuss the rays of hope, and we end with what we believe is needed to take the world into a sustainable and climate-resilient place.
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- Michael, Kavya, 1985
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Barriers and enablers of gender-just climate action: Examples from India
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 226-242
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter examines the possibilities for a just transition centring around questions of gender justice. Through a comparative analysis of Solar Mamas, the Bhungroo Irrigation Technology and the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), it responds to recent calls in energy and climate change literature for addressing institutionalised gendered injustices in the climate/energy policy landscape. The chapter seeks to understand institutionalised gendered norms around women’s role as care providers and their impact on providing gender-just energy solutions. The analysis of the case studies depicts that the state mechanisms to engender energy policies and programmes in India like the PMUY often internalise long-standing gender roles where women are seen as primarily responsible for the provision of “care” while initiatives that are emerging at grassroots level through bottom-up approaches like the Solar Mamas programme or the Bhungroo Irrigation Technology are largely cognisant of the everyday realities of women’s lives as care-providers, work towards disrupting gendered norms around care, and envisage a role for women beyond that of carers.
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- Michael, Kavya, 1985
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Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: What Role do Emotions Play?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Emotion Review. - 1754-0739 .- 1754-0747. ; 15:4, s. 267-270
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change intersecting with complex socio-economic and political processes has produced distinctive patterns of crisis migration. However there exists a significant gap in understanding and theorizing these forms of migration creating significant policy challenges. Using a case study of an interstate migrant settlement in Bengaluru, India this article unpacks migration as an adaptation strategy through the lens of emotions. The article offers significant insights into how emotions affect the choice of migration as an adaptation strategy and shapes the differential experiences of risks and vulnerability for different groups of people. Emphasizing such relational aspects of migration, the article calls for more research that develops a nuanced understanding of the emotional landscapes of migrants across migration pathways.
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- Osunmuyiwa, Olufolahan, 1991, et al.
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Dismantling Power and Bringing Reflexivity into the Eco-modern Home
- 2023
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Ingår i: Buildings and Cities. - 2632-6655. ; In press
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Why accomodating gender & diversity is vital for the widespread adoption of smart energy technologies. Can renewable and smart energy technologies in the home avoid negative consequences for gender, power, and nature-society relations within the domestic sphere? Olufolahan Osunmuyiwa, Helene Ahlborg, Martin Hultman, Kavya Michael and Anna Åberg comment on ‘Masculine roles and practices in homes with photovoltaic systems’ (Mechlenborg & Gram-Hanssen, 2022) – published in a recent Buildings & Cities special issue ‘Energy, Emerging Tech and Gender in Homes’.
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- Shrivastava, Manish Kumar, et al.
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Gender and India’s climate policy: Bridging the disconnects
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 55-73
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gender has been central to India’s development planning. However, an overtly development-centric climate policy seems to have ignored concerns of gender equality. This chapter unpacks the various dimensions of this disconnect between development planning and climate policy by contrasting the progression in policy discourse on women empowerment with the framing and evolution of climate policy as a new development discourse. It is argued that the policymaking on gender in India has corresponded very well to the advancements in the academic discourse and social movements for gender equality. Over the years, starting from the First Five-Year Plan in 1951, the underlying understanding of policy provisions has evolved and reflects a better appreciation of the idea of gender equality as integral to development planning. However, this understanding has not permeated into the administrative and analytical apparatus of broader development policy of which climate policy is a part. The idea of social and economic development in climate policy debates is invariably reduced to a pursuit of cost-effective technological upgradation, oblivious to a vast body of scholarship arguing the social embeddedness of technological choices. Not only the climate policies remain detached from the advancements in the policymaking for gender justice, but the academic literature also feeding into climate policy too has taken an ad-hoc approach towards centrality of gender equality to development. The chapter suggests that the provisions in existing gender policies offer a ready reference for better integration of gender justice into climate policies. However, this would require a political determination to keep gender justice at the centre of development policymaking as well as efforts by climate policy researchers to expand the horizon.
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