Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies

Main author: Tilley, Lisa
Other authors: Ranawana, Anupama
Baldwin, Andrew
Tully, Tyler
Format: Journal Article           
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institution SOAS, University of London
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description Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism. Building on that existing work, contributors to this collection extend and deepen understandings of the material entanglements of race and ecology in our contemporary conjuncture. Speaking from various scales and locations, including the Caribbean, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Palestine, the authors reflect on those sites while also collectively recovering and amplifying lineages of thought on ecology from across the South. As the contributions collected here show, the traps set by global structures of race also direct mainstream climate solutions back towards the expropriation, premature death, or prevention of birth of peoples of colour by various means, from militarised conservation to eugenic populationism. Confronting the racial logics of both ecological harm and its supposed solutions is therefore a key task of this collection. As a collective, however, the issue’s contributors also carve out paths to reparation and structural change which form the contours of an anti-racist ecology for our times.
format Journal Article
author Tilley, Lisa
author_facet Tilley, Lisa
Ranawana, Anupama
Baldwin, Andrew
Tully, Tyler
authorStr Tilley, Lisa
author_letter Tilley, Lisa
author2 Ranawana, Anupama
Baldwin, Andrew
Tully, Tyler
author2Str Ranawana, Anupama
Baldwin, Andrew
Tully, Tyler
title Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies
publisher Sage
publishDate 2023
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38002/