In view of recent criticisms of the environmentalist movement for centring middle-class whiteness, this book examines the discourses, strategies, and theories of environmentalism in modern Britain through the Black feminist lens of intersectionality.
The author proposes a framework of 'intersectional absences and presences' to argue that how environmentalists understand—or ignore—intersectionality shapes their social movements in important ways. It affects how they build and communicate their political demands as environmentalists, as well as the literal spaces in which they organize. Drawing on interviews, ethnography, and archival research, it demonstrates the importance of intersectionality for analysing the structural relationships between discrete structures of oppression such as racism, sexism, and classism, and how political demands are built and communicated.
This book will appeal to scholars, postgraduate students, and researchers of gender studies, social movements, political sociology, environmental sociology, and race and ethnicity.
In view of recent criticisms of the environmentalist movement for centring middle-class whiteness, this book examines the discourses, strategies, and theories of environmentalism in modern Britain through the Black feminist lens of intersectionality.
1 Introduction: Taking a Black feminist approach to environmentalism 2
Intersectionality: Claims and contestations 3 Questions for a billion green
Black feminisms 4 Environmentalism and intersectionality: Histories and
trajectories 5 Intersectional absences and presences in environmentalism 6
Until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable
Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a Lecturer at Soka University in the Graduate School of International Peace Studies (SIPS). Previously, Lydia Ayame was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She also holds an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent and a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from SOAS. Her research interests include social movements, climate change and ecology, social inequities, migration, and reproductive politics.
