Climate justice in the majority world: vulnerability, resistance and diverse knowledges

"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 twelve chapters featuring the work of over thirty 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 twelve 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 organising 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. Neil J. W. Crawford is a Research Fellow in Climate Action and member of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, 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"--

"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 twelve chapters featuring the work of over thirty 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 twelve 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 organising 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. Neil J. W. Crawford is a Research Fellow in Climate Action and member of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, 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"

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Climate Justice Beyond the Minority World - Towards Decolonial Knowledges -- 1 State of the Art and Knowledge Gaps in the Climate Justice Landscape -- 2 Why 'Majority World'? -- 3 Overview of Chapters -- 4 Advancing Climate Justice Scholarship -- References -- 1 Southern Climate Justice Activism in the Context of an Energy Transition: Forest Rights Over Coal in Mahan, Central India -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Climate Justice Movements in the Majority World -- 3 How the Indian State Drives Ecological Injustice -- 3.1 Postcolonial Development and Ecological Injustice -- 3.2 Neoliberal Development and Ecological Injustice -- 3.3 Coal and Ecological Injustice -- 3.4 Paradoxical Climate Justice -- 3.5 Undermining Democratic Rights Over Forests: Legal Injustice -- 4 A Forest Rights Movement in India's Energy Capital -- 4.1 Displacement and Deforestation -- 4.2 How the State Drove Ecological Injustice at Mahan -- 4.2.1 Central Government's Conflict Between Coal and Forests -- 4.2.2 State Government's Violation of the FRA -- 4.3 Forest Rights and Democracy: The Movement -- 4.3.1 Mobilization -- 4.3.2 Tactics and Countertactics -- 4.3.3 Victory Or Respite? -- 4.3.4 Forest Rights as Democracy and Climate Justice -- 5 Analysis: Forest Rights and Democracy as Climate Justice for Central Indian Communities -- 5.1 Difference in Indigenous Climate Justice: Climate Justice Vs. Forest Rights -- 5.2 Framing a Southern Climate Justice Activism in the Context of Energy Transition -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Extreme Climatic Events and Climate Change Policies: A Call for Climate Justice Action in Mozambique -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Framing Climate Justice in Mozambique.