Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability

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.

"To achieve fair and sustainable futures, it will be essential to dissolve old hegemonic stereotypes like ‘womanhood' and ‘indigeneity’ and nourish the seeds of systemic change with marginal wisdoms. With honesty, acuity, passion, and hope, an international groundswell of authors calls theory back to praxis through inspirational verse and the joys of movement building." – Ariel Salleh, author of "Ecofeminism as Politics""In Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability, Godfrey and Torres creatively link intersectionality theory to the concept of just sustainabilities to provide both a framework and new tools to analyze the dynamics of the different social and material worlds as evidenced by the diverse voices of their contributors." – Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University."Across a diversity of situated perspectives and locations, this volume makes a strong and necessary argument for the importance of seeing environmental justice advocacy and feminist intersectional politics as intertwined, not to be separated neither in theory nor in practice. The volume gathers together many passionate voices of activists-scholars-poets committed to struggles for globally sustainable and just feminist futures. A timely and urgently needed intervention in debates on global climate change!" – Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender Studies and co-director GEXcel Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden"Informed by intersectional frameworks of race, class and gender, the editors assemble a disparate and wide-ranging constellation of perspectives to imagine innovative possibilities for the future. Only junior scholars with passion and commitment could pull off such a tour-de-force of dedication, imagination and old-fashioned hard work. One of-a-kind, this unique and provocative volume raises a new bar for environmental activism." – Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

• 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