From ‘Carbon Democracy’ to ‘Climate Democracy’?

James Goodman is Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney where he researches climate change and energy transitions. He is the co-author of the book Beyond the Coal Rush and Decarbonising Electricity with Tom Morton.Tom Morton is at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. He researches climate communication and is an award-winning documentary producer. He has co-authored the book, Beyond the Coal Rush and Decarbonising Electricity with James Goodman.

• Introduction - ‘Rage into action’: from carbon democracy to climate democracy? 1. Reluctant transformers or reconsidering opposition to climate change mitigation? German think tanks between environmentalism and neoliberalism 2. Energy transition and dialectics: tracing discursive resistance to coal through discourse coalition in India 3. Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4. Who wins and who loses from renewable energy transition? Large-scale solar, land, and livelihood in Karnataka, India 5. Legitimizing energy transitions through community participation: Germany and Australia at a crossroad 6. Comparing local energy conflicts in NSW Australia: moving to climate generosity 7. Climate camps and environmental movements: impacting the coal industry and practicing ‘system change’ 8. Climate movements in Germany, India, and Australia: dynamics of transition, transformation, and emergency 9. Climate, violence, resource extraction and ecological debt: global implications of an assassination on South Africa's coal mining belt