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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.
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There is much that is striking and authentic about this collection. By refusing despair and detached scholarship, the editors and authors of this collection are mobilizing planetary justice. Social and Cultural Geography We can still learn from reflection, think differently, perhaps learn to dance with nature, and hope for new forms of scholarship. This original and thoughtful collection starts to lead us in the right direction. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy This fascinating book explores knowledge regimes and ways of being centred on planetary justice. Through case studies and lived experiences, the orientation is of critical reflection, of intimate stories and ancient obligations, of solidarity and comradeship. A must-read. Rob White, University of Tasmania (Emeritus) Planetary Justice offers essential reading about solidarity and justice, bringing together voices from diverse contexts to provide critical, grounded and generative responses to confront global climate, environmental and social injustices. Farhana Sultana, Syracuse University This book is essential reading. It amplifies voices of struggle, urging us to collectivize solidarity and resistance for planetary justice. Andrea Valdivia, Universidad de Chile
1. Earth Unbound: Situating Climate Change, Solidarity and Planetary
Justice - Michele Lobo, Eve Mayes and Laura Bedford
Part 1: Solidarity as Responsibility, Resurgence and Regeneration
2. Waking Up the Snake: Ancient Wisdom for Regeneration - Anne Poelina, Bill
Webb, Sandra Wooltorton and Naomi Godden
3. Farmers as Allies Towards Ecological Justice: Lessons from Water Markets,
Colonialism and Theft in Australias Murray-Darling Basin - Alexander Baird
4. Freshwater Access, Equity and Empowerment in the Indian Sundarban Region -
Anwesha Haldar, Kalyan Rudra and Lakshminarayan Satpati
5. Climate Change and Oceanic Responsibilities: Listening and Dancing with
Saltwater Country, Australia - Lowell Hunter and Michele Lobo
Interstice 1: Saturated Strands of (In/Re)Surgent Solidarity - Yin Paradies
Part 2: Solidarity without Borders
6. Asserting Indigenous Self-Determination and Climate Justice through
Resisting Coal: A Global North-South Comparison - Ruchira Talukdar
7. Popular Intellectuals, Social Movement Frames and the Evolution of the
Anti-Mining Movement in the Niyamgiri Mountains, Odisha, India - Souvik Lal
Chakraborty and Julian S. Yates
8. Solidarity as Praxis in Class Struggle - Laura Bedford
Interstice 2: The Gifts of Failure - The Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
Collective (GTDF)
Interstice 3: Face to Face with the Super Cyclone Amphan - Kolkata, 20 May,
2020 - Sanjana Dutt
Part 3: Learning and Living with Climate Change as Situated Solidarity
9. Planetary Justice and Decolonizing Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in
Solidarity with Country - Aleryk Fricker
10. Towards Transformative Social Resilience: Charting a Path with
Climate-Vulnerable Communities in The Indian Sundarbans - Jenia Mukherjee,
Amrita Sen, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Aditya Ghosh
11. Profane Knowledge, Climate Anxiety and the Politics of Education - Callum
McGregor, Beth Christie and Marlies Kustatscher
12. White Audacity and Student Climate Justice Activism - Natasha
Abhayawickrama, Eve Mayes and Dani Villafaña
Interstice 4: Soil Geopolitics and Research as Ecological Praxis - Robin
Bellingham
Postscript: The Earth is Undone - Alicia Flynn
Michele Lobo is an Australian geographer of Indian heritage who explores race, encounter and planetary futures. She is Honorary Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University.
Eve Mayes is Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her work is situated at the intersection of the sociology of education and social movement studies.
Laura Bedford is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include political ecology, green criminology, state-corporate crime, activism and resistance, and policing.
