The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-50023-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 654 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1234 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism introduces contemporary forms of grassroots climate activism from around the world through the lenses of a variety of academic disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives. Focusing on bottom-up case studies, it showcases innovative and creative approaches, as well as the knowledge of those working towards swift decarbonisation, just transitions, and climate justice.

Grassroots climate activism presents a rich body of material to be studied not only by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists but also by scholars in the humanities and the creative arts. This timely handbook explores climate activism across six continents, and it provides perspectives from climate activists themselves. The authors interrogate a range of key questions: what forms of mobilisation, organisation, and practice constitute grassroots climate activism, and how have these changed over the last decade? What are the boundaries of the climate movement and how does it interact with, or differ from, other social movements? How do activists engage with the moral dimensions of the climate crisis? How do grassroots engagements with climate struggles give shape to plural, site-specific, but nonetheless interconnected, forms of climate activism? What tools do climate activists use to create functioning and effective local, national, and transnational networks? How has climate activism been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic? What is the relationship between critical scholarship and climate activism? What methodologies are particularly effective for studying climate activism, and why?

This handbook aims to inspire others to devote more attention to grassroots climate activism. It brings together established and up-and-coming scholars, scholar-activists, and practitioners who present novel, cutting-edge research and new findings exploring current developments in different parts of the world. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of climate activism, climate solutions, climate and society, human-environmental crises, grassroots activism, and social movements. It will also be of interest to practitioners involved in climate action and to all those who are ready to launch their own grassroots initiatives, or support one of the many already underway.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mering, Sabine von

Bell, Thomas E

Da Silva Faustino, Alexandre

Steele, Wendy

Ward, Ann

Arjona Soberón, Mariana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Grassroots Climate Activism Across Six Continents Part I: Accounts from the Ground: The Fight for Climate Justice  Introduction  2. NoDAPL and the continued fight for Tribal Self-Determination by Federally Recognized Indian Tribes in the United States  3. Indigenous Climate Justice and Epistemic Politics in Amazonia  4. Brazilian Grassroots Climate Activism in Unequal Waterscapes  5. Pacific Youth and Climate Activism: Safeguarding Our Fa’asinomaga  6. Realising Common Ground: Custodianship of Country and Youth Climate Action.  7. Action, Inertia, and the Stories that Get us Moving Part II: Climate Artivism Introduction  8. Climate Activism and Attunement through Creative Practices  9. A Contemplative Pedagogy of Listening  10. The Sonic Work of Transnational Youth Climate Movements  11. Performing Transformative Climate Justice  12. Turning a Leaf: Climate Activism in English-language Writing  13. Wild Hope and Curatorial Activism Part III: Diverse Modes of Organising Different Constituencies Introduction  14. Nanna Mobilities: Environmental Policy and Protest Movements in Australia and the UK  15. Young People’s Climate Activism  16. Pandemic Possibilities: The Corona Crisis as Perceived Opportunity and Threat for Climate Activists  17. Youth Climate Activists’ Practices on Social Media in Belgium and France  18. Challenging Politics to Do (and Be) Better: Young People’s Climate Activism Role in the Italian Political Landscape 19. Christian Communities as Climate Champions Part IV: Civil Disobedience and Litigation vs Criminalising and Politicising Climate Activism Introduction  20 Extinction Rebellion and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience  21. System Change, Not Climate Change: The Climate Justice Movement in Germany 2008-2022  22. Unburnable Coal and Unlabelled Climate Activism in China  23. Beyond Protest: How Legal Actions Drive Climate Justice  24. ‘Academic Freedom’ v Climate Change Denial: How the Politics of Research Funding Shape the Possibilities for Researching Grassroots Activism Part V: Grassroots Critical Perspectives on Climate Actions Introduction  25. Grassroots Climate Activism in North Africa: Local, Personal and Radical  26. Climate Change Infrastructures and Transnational Activist Networks  27. Community-Led Responses to Climate-Induced Disasters in Zimbabwe: Towards a Politico-Community-Based Model  28. Climate Activism and Environmental Politics in Mongolia  29. Grassroots vs Greenwashing: The Climate Movement and Animal Agriculture Part VI: Fighting Against False Solutions and Prefiguring Alternatives Introduction  30. No Greenwashing of Fossil Gas - Creating a Grassroots Transatlantic Climate Bridge Against False Solutions  31. Climate Activism and the Political-Economic Landscape in Nigeria  32. Grounding the Global Climate Movement: Eco-socialist militancy and Neo-rural experimentations in the present Environmental Activism in Italy  33. Promise Motivation: Films that Encourage Grassroots Climate Activism  34. Insider Climate Activism: Slowing Down or Speeding Up to Decarbonize? Part VII: Epistemological Questions and New Praxis Introduction  35. Knowledge in the Frame: The Epistemology of Extinction Rebellion  36. Convening Climate Activism in Canada: Conflicting Expertise and the Production of the Problem  37. Climate Activism in K-12 Formal Education Across North American Contexts  38. People Powered Climate Justice: Challenges and Possibilities in Engaging Activists in Strategic Capacity Building  39. Building Regenerative Cultures in Extinction Rebellion Activism and Academic Research  40. A Future Through Climate Activism: An Outlook Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sabine von Mering is Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Professor of German and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.

Thomas E. Bell has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Kent, UK, where he is an associate lecturer at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology.

Alexandre da Silva Faustino has a PhD in urban geography completed at the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and is a member of The Alliance for Praxis Research.

Wendy Steele is Professor of Sustainability and Critical Urban Governance in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia and co-Chair of Future Earth Australia (FEA).

Ann Ward has a PhD in sociology from Brandeis University, USA and works at the Office of Sustainability at Tufts University, USA.

Mariana Arjona Soberón is a PhD candidate at the Rachel Carson Center and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany.