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This chapter attempts to understand how Indigenous resistances to extractive fossil fuel capitalism mobilize on the basis of self-determination. It compares two struggles from Australia and India in order to gain a global perspective on the legal and political possibilities for Indigenous land struggles against fossil fuel projects to assert the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) principle. Indigenous resistances to fossil fuels are at once about redressing colonization’s historic wrongs of land dispossession, its continuation through ongoing dispossession and securing just Indigenous climate futures. Identifying differences and common grounds in sociopolitical contexts, extents of Indigenous rights and self-determination in the two cases, the chapter recommends principles for solidarity that climate justice activists and scholars can find helpful.
This chapter decolonizes oceanic knowledges through a focus on crosscurrents of belonging with Saltwater Country, Australia. Coming together across our diverse experiences of racialization, Lowell, a Nyul Nyul Saltwater Man from Broome with creative as well as cultural knowledge expertise and Michele, an Australian woman of Indian heritage from deltaic Bengal illuminate the diversity of oceanic turns in the Southern and Indian Ocean. The chapter focuses on sand art that emerges from listening and dancing with Gunditjmara and Wadawurrung saltwater country in southern Victoria, Australia. These transitory sand artworks make sensible elemental and spiritual forces that are captured by drone photography – the presence of Bunjil the creator spirit as well as the touch of the sand, seasons, tides, waves, currents, wind and sky. Oceanic responsibilities emerge through whale dreaming, healing and reinvigoration that go viral through social media and ‘help us find our way’ amid the violence of climate change. Our experimental multisensory storying of Saltwater Country meshes photographs, videos, cultural knowledge, ceremony and dance to produce more-than-human knowledges of planetary justice.
This book shifts the scope of debates about climate change and justice through theoretical insights and solidarities that straddle the boundary between activism and the academy. Justice emerges as bottom-up, interconnected, interdependent and responsive enactments to subaltern realities, a pluriversal politics and a planetary ethics. Across the book, there are differing inflections, articulations and frictive encounters with overlapping conceptual frameworks of climate justice, environmental justice, ecological justice and multispecies justice. Therefore, rather than adopting a homogenizing framework of the planetary, the chapters in the book highlight injustice and justice in myriad forms – across human difference, generations, species, life/nonlife and deep time. Following these heterogeneous framings, planetary justice becomes a capacious and pluralist concept that refreshes tired, toxic political debates that centre the language of crises and ecoapocalyptic futures. The attention to alternative traditions and subaltern realities of thinking and living illuminate intimacies with the diverse ‘life’ of planetary systems. This book considers these diverse performances of justice that emerge from grassroots struggles for equity, dignity, land/sea rights and living Indigenous/southern protocols.
This introductory chapter introduces the central issues of planetary collapse, planetary justice, activism and solidarity that animate contributions across this book. The history and praxis of the Earth Unbound Collective is shared, as well as the concerns and questions that fuelled discussions across three years of the Collective. This chapter offers ‘planetary justice’ as a provocative concept and a hook for the collection: a concept that emphasizes the differentiated experiences of injustice across the planet, and the need for intersectional, ground-up solidarities that cross national and onto-epistemic borders. The chapter situates the book within the broader context of the turn to planetary social thought, the planetary age and planetary imaginaries across the humanities and social sciences. It briefly introduces the three parts of the book and their constitutive chapters: Part I: Solidarity as Responsibility, Resurgence and Regeneration; Part II: Solidarity without Borders; and Part III: Learning and Living with Climate Change as Situated Solidarity.
This book shifts the scope of debates about climate change and justice through theoretical insights and solidarities that straddle the boundary between activism and the academy. Justice emerges as bottom-up, interconnected, interdependent and responsive enactments to subaltern realities, a pluriversal politics and a planetary ethics. Across the book, there are differing inflections, articulations and frictive encounters with overlapping conceptual frameworks of climate justice, environmental justice, ecological justice and multispecies justice. Therefore, rather than adopting a homogenizing framework of the planetary, the chapters in the book highlight injustice and justice in myriad forms – across human difference, generations, species, life/nonlife and deep time. Following these heterogeneous framings, planetary justice becomes a capacious and pluralist concept that refreshes tired, toxic political debates that centre the language of crises and ecoapocalyptic futures. The attention to alternative traditions and subaltern realities of thinking and living illuminate intimacies with the diverse ‘life’ of planetary systems. This book considers these diverse performances of justice that emerge from grassroots struggles for equity, dignity, land/sea rights and living Indigenous/southern protocols.
This chapter explores water colonialism, trading and theft in eastern Australia, specifically the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). Findings from interviews with local farmers provide fresh insights into traditional notions of environmental and ecological justice. While most farmers were concerned about protecting fresh water for its economic value, some farmers were able to balance this through ecological justice that also takes into account water’s intrinsic value.
The Sundarban ecosystem situated in the lowermost part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta region (GBM) has been witnessing a severe freshwater crisis coupled with climate induced hazards: global warming, cyclonic storms and saltwater intrusions. Inferior quality and derisory facilities for drinking water supplies have led to serious health concerns, especially among women. In addition, a thriving water business has created a sharp division among the residents whose access to potable water depends on their economic status. In these circumstances, we argue that judicious groundwater exploitation, specifically in primary occupational sectors, and extensive rainwater harvesting are crucial for sustainable development and climate justice. However, this requires proper planning and implementation of water policies, appropriate development and maintenance of water infrastructures.
This book shifts the scope of debates about climate change and justice through theoretical insights and solidarities that straddle the boundary between activism and the academy. Justice emerges as bottom-up, interconnected, interdependent and responsive enactments to subaltern realities, a pluriversal politics and a planetary ethics. Across the book, there are differing inflections, articulations and frictive encounters with overlapping conceptual frameworks of climate justice, environmental justice, ecological justice and multispecies justice. Therefore, rather than adopting a homogenizing framework of the planetary, the chapters in the book highlight injustice and justice in myriad forms – across human difference, generations, species, life/nonlife and deep time. Following these heterogeneous framings, planetary justice becomes a capacious and pluralist concept that refreshes tired, toxic political debates that centre the language of crises and ecoapocalyptic futures. The attention to alternative traditions and subaltern realities of thinking and living illuminate intimacies with the diverse ‘life’ of planetary systems. This book considers these diverse performances of justice that emerge from grassroots struggles for equity, dignity, land/sea rights and living Indigenous/southern protocols.
This book shifts the scope of debates about climate change and justice through theoretical insights and solidarities that straddle the boundary between activism and the academy. Justice emerges as bottom-up, interconnected, interdependent and responsive enactments to subaltern realities, a pluriversal politics and a planetary ethics. Across the book, there are differing inflections, articulations and frictive encounters with overlapping conceptual frameworks of climate justice, environmental justice, ecological justice and multispecies justice. Therefore, rather than adopting a homogenizing framework of the planetary, the chapters in the book highlight injustice and justice in myriad forms – across human difference, generations, species, life/nonlife and deep time. Following these heterogeneous framings, planetary justice becomes a capacious and pluralist concept that refreshes tired, toxic political debates that centre the language of crises and ecoapocalyptic futures. The attention to alternative traditions and subaltern realities of thinking and living illuminate intimacies with the diverse ‘life’ of planetary systems. This book considers these diverse performances of justice that emerge from grassroots struggles for equity, dignity, land/sea rights and living Indigenous/southern protocols.
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Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species, and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth Unbound Collective share stories from India, Australia, Canada and Scotland. Chapters draw on Indigenous, Black, Southern, ecosocialist and ecofeminist perspectives to call for more radical and interconnected ideas of justice and solidarity.
This accessible book features diverse voices that speak with the planet in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. It explores the politics and practices of working towards a future where the planet thrives.
