Climate Justice and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781137022806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 287 str.

Tracey Skillington

Opis

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how this state of affairs might be reversed and the societal relevance of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization of procedures of natural resource management and problem resolution amongst self-determining communities. It looks at how increasing human vulnerability to climate destruction forms the basis of a new peoples-powered demand for greater climate justice, as well as a global movement for preventative action and reflexive societal learning.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Anthropocene futures and their emancipatory potential

Transformations in the socio-cognitive framing of climate change since the 1990s

Pollution practices as practices of domination

The state as a moral political agent of justice in relation to climate change

Completing the democratic circle on climate justice

2. The Idea of Climate Justice

Introduction

Rawls Theory of Justice

Critical perspectives on Rawls Law of Peoples

Benefits, costs, rights and responsibilities across international communities

Common subjection to climate change risk as a basis for a new model of global justice

Defining justice for an expanded commons: The perspective of climate justice coalitions

3. Resource inequalities, domination and the struggle to reclaim democratic freedoms

Introduction

Denying the opportunity and process aspects of democratic freedom - the case of global land acquisitions

Claims to extreme energy sources as claims to Justice? The case of hydraulic fracking

Addressing governance deficiencies

Conclusion

4. Climate Change and its security implications

Introduction

War in the national interest

On the rights of peoples or the rights of states to self-determination over natural resources - the case of the Arctic

Toward a transnational order of peace on natural resources distribution

Conclusion

5. Climate Justice without freedom - Legal and political responses to climate change and forced migration

Introduction

The changing circumstances of justice under conditions of growing natural resource scarcity

Lacking legal definition and human rights presence - the current status of teh climate displaced

Defining rights to mobility in 'abnormal times'

Conclusion

6. On the rights of the peoples of dissappearing states

Introduction

Addressing the lacuna in international law on the rights of peoples of dissappearing states

New contexts for the application of the rescue principle

Collective human rights obligations to displaced communities

Transnational democratic settlements on resource allocation and sovereign state reconfiguration

Conclusion

7. What is common about 'our common future'? Maintaining the human rights status of water

Claiming rights to the resources of the commons - a complicated affair

The case of trans-boundary rivers.- Disputing the human rights status of water

Sharing water resources with non-excludable others

8. Conclusion - Towards a transnational order of climate justice

Addressing current democratic deformities

Extending the 'who' of justice to include future generations

The communicative empowerment of aggrieved publics

Establishing greater reciprocity amongst all self-determining communities

Dr. Tracey Skillington is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, where she had received her PhD in visual culture and the contemporary political spectacle. Her research interests include issues of justice that arise in relation to climate change and transnational memory projects. Recent publications include ‘Climate Change and the human rights challenge: extending justice beyond the borders of the nation state’ in The International Journal of Human Rights (2012), and ‘Perspectives on Climate Change’ in a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory (2015) for which she was Editor.

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how this state of affairs might be reversed and the societal relevance of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization of procedures of natural resource management and problem resolution amongst self-determining communities. It looks at how increasing human vulnerability to climate destruction forms the basis of a new peoples-powered demand for greater climate justice, as well as a global movement for preventative action and reflexive societal learning.

O autorze

Dr. Tracey Skillington is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, where she had received her PhD in visual culture and the contemporary political spectacle. Her research interests include issues of justice that arise in relation to climate change and transnational memory projects. Recent publications include ‘Climate Change and the human rights challenge: extending justice beyond the borders of the nation state’ in The International Journal of Human Rights (2012), and ‘Perspectives on Climate Change’ in a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory (2015) for which she was Editor.