Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges

This edited collection explores climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World, highlighting the severe impacts of climate change and the solutions for the climate crisis. It brings together 12 chapters featuring the work of over 30 authors from around the globe, focusing on activism, resistance, and social movement organizing in India and Brazil, lived experiences of frontline communities in Bangladesh and South Africa, and contested accounts, narratives, and futures in the Maldives and Pakistan. The book adopts a decolonial lens to provide rich empirical content and contribute to addressing epistemic injustice in climate change research, policy, and practice.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited collection delves into a diverse array of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World, where the majority of humans and non-humans reside. It is also the epicenter of the most severe consequences of climate change and holds some of the key solutions to the climate crisis. The collection brings together 12 chapters, featuring the work of over 30 authors from across the globe.

The impacts of climate change are disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and countries in the Majority World, who have historically contributed little to the rising global temperatures. The 12 chapters in this book focus on a range of cross-cutting themes, showcasing 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 offers rich empirical content, insightful comparisons, and novel conceptual interventions. It forefronts 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.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032101804