Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of race, class and gender

ISBN-13: 9781138830059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 350 str.

Godfrey, Phoebe

Opis

It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences. As a result, limited analyses must be abandoned in favour of intersectional theories and practices."

Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability" is an interdisciplinary collection which addresses global climate change and sustainability by engaging with the issues of race, gender, and class through an intersectional lens. The book challenges readers to foster new theoretical and practical linkages and to think beyond the traditional, and oftentimes reductionist, environmental science frame by examining issues within their turbulent political, cultural and personal landscapes. Through a variety of media and writing styles, this collection is unique in its presentation of a complex and integrated analysis of global climate change and its implications. Its companion book, "Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change, " addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice.

This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and both undergraduate and post-graduate students in the areas of Environmental Studies, Climate Change, Gender Studies and International studies as well as those seeking a more intersectional analysis of GCC.

Spis treści

Introduction: Opportunities for renewal: Intersectional praxis for just sustainabilities  Part 1: AIR  1. You probably still have doubts  2. The Virgin and the Seed  3. Womanism an agroecology: An intersectional praxis as acts of political warfare  4. An Economy of Hope: The Surprising Rise of a "Grassroots Democratic Economy" (GDE)  5. Intersectionality, ecology, food: Conflict theory’s missing lens  6. Hegemonic masculinity  7. The Air Around me  with Save the Trees  8. Community schools as tools for climate change adaption in impoverished nations: The example of Haiti  9. Of Starving Horses and Growing Grass: Resilience versus Dependency in a Caribbean Fishing Community  Part 2: EARTH  10. The Memory of Land . . . The Law of All Belonging to Earth  11. Intelligent Life  12. Bringing Goddesses Down to Earth  13. The Farmer and the Witch: Replanting the Seeds of Indigeneity  14. Dia de la Tierra  15. A personal journey to a Universal Approach: Permaculture  16. Climate change and Sustainable Agriculture: Why Inclusive Farmers’ Markets Matter  17. Coming home to our bodies/Healing the Earth we share  18. Mending the Earth  Part 3: FIRE  19. Before I was baptized  20. The Eagle’s Eye  21. Incorporating the arts is the key to building social movements  22. Pathological and ineffective activism—What is to be done?  23. My life from the projects to the farm  24. Triumphant, digital media  25. Family Farmers Can Feed the World and Cool the Planet! The Food Sovereignty Struggle in the Climate Justice Movement  26. Environment of the Margins: Reconsidering Environmental Racism for Sustainable Action  27. Ubuntu  Part 4: WATER  28. Yemaya Madre de Agua  29. Yemaya  30. Catholics, Socio-Ecological Ethics and Global Climate Change: Incarnations of Green Praxis  31. Our Climate, Our Change: Using Visual and Interactive Practices to Expand Participation and Leadership in Climate Action  32. Ohio University State Museum of Ice  33. Global Water Dances: Embodying Water Solutions  34. Mni  35. Whale Prayer  36. Forced In or Left Out: Experiencing Green from Community Redevelopment to Voluntary Simplicity and the Potential In-Between  Part 5: AETHER  37. Softly Walking  38. Reach  39.  A Pilgrimage for Hope Revisited: Grieving Together Caminamos Preguntando  40. Of the necessity and difficulty in working across borders: Race, Class, Gender, and transnational Environmental Organizing  41. Examining the Environmental Injustices of Clean Development Mechanism and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Schemes in South Asia  42. Regenerate  43. Call to action for system change and the solar commons  44. Food Sovereignty or Bust: Transforming the Agrifood System is a Must  45. Children in a changing climate: how child-centered approaches can build resilience and overcome multiple barriers to adaptation  46. Banter from a Repressed heart 

O autorze

Phoebe Godfrey is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence at UCONN in sociology. She co-founded the non-profit CLiCK, in Willimantic, Connecticut,　dedicated to a local sustainable food system. 　 Denise Torres is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The unifying theme of her work and publications is the authentic inclusion of silenced and marginalized groups in the systems that affect them.