Climate Futures

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology, global studies and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.John Foran is professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Priya A. Kurian is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.Debashish Munshi is professor of management communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

This book should be required reading for anyone who is serious about meeting these challenges through means that are both equitable and just to the most vulnerable among us.

• Foreword: Equity: The Final Frontier for an Effective Climate Change Agreement - Sunita Narain1: Climate Futures: An Introduction - Debashish Munshi, Priya Kurian, John Foran, and Kum-Kum BhavnaniPart I: Climate Change, Colonialism, and Capitalism2. Way Beyond the Lifeboat: An Indigenous Peoples’ Allegory of Climate Justice - Kyle Powys Whyte3. The Politics of Climate Change is More than the Politics of Capitalism - Dipesh Chakrabarty4. The Grand Theft of the Atmosphere: Sketches for a Theory of Climate Injustice - Andreas Malm and Rikard Warlenius5. Taking on Big Oil by Looking Within - Anjali Appadurai6. Climate Change Forces Post-Capitalism - Kim Stanley RobinsonPart II: Climate Change through Lenses of Diversity7. Zooming In, Calling Out: (M)anthropogenic Climate Change through the Lens of gender - Sherilyn MacGregor8. A Culture-centered Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Insights from New Zealand - Debashish Munshi, Priya Kurian and Sandra L. Morrison9. Exorbitant Responsibility: Geographies of Climate Justice - Nigel Clark and Yasmin Gunaratnam10. Indigeneity and Climate Justice in Northern Sweden - Seema Arora-Jonsson11. Out of the Closets and into the Climate! Queer Feminist Climate Justice - Greta GaardPart III: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Climate Justice12. Sleepwalking is a Death Sentence for Humanity: Manifesto for a Sociology of the Climate Crisis and of Climate Justice - John Foran13. A Role for the Environmental Humanities: Directly Intervening in Anthropogenic Climate Change - Ken Hiltner14. Media and Climate Justice: What Space for Alternative Discourses? - Anabela Carvalho15. Shifting the Balance of Forces through Sanctions against Trump and US Carbon Capital - Patrick Bond16. Linking Environmental Justice and Climate Justice through Academia and the Prison Industrial Complex - David Pellow17. Democracy and Climate Justice: The Unfolding of Tragedy -Walter Baber and Robert V. BartlettPart IV: The Quest for Climate Justice across the World18. The Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership: A Pacific Approach to a Global Problem - Cherelle Lagipoiva Jackson19. Community Approaches to Climate Justice: Cases from Papua New Guinea - Sangion Appiee Tiu20. Cultural Resilience and Climate Change: Everyday Lives in Niue - Jess Pasisi21. The Contradictory Development Policies of the Maldives in the Face of Climate Change - Mohamed Hamdhaan Zuhair22. Why Capacity Building Needs to Do Justice to the Global South: Insights from Bangladesh - Naznin Nasir, Meraz Mostafa, M. Feisal Rahman, and Saleemul Huq23. China: Climate Justice without a Social Movement? - Fengshi Wu24. Entrenched Vulnerabilities: Evaluating Climate Justice Across Development and Adaptation Responses in Southern India - Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar, Garima Jain, Kavya Michael, and Chandni Singh25. Self Interest Trumps Global Climate Action in Africa and Elsewhere -Nnimmo Bassey26. Frontlines, Intersections, and Creativity: The Growth of the North American Climate Justice Movement - John Foran, Corrie Grosse, and Brad HornickPart V: Thinking beyond the Here and Now: Envisioning Many Futures27. Change is and will be Local - Anna Pérez Català28. “We’re doing something together that will reverberate down over time”: An Interview with Bill McKibben, John Foran29. Climate Justice Must be Anti-Patriarchal, or It Will Not Be Systemic - Majandra Rodriguez Acha30. Is Vivir Bien Possible? Candid Thoughts about Systemic Alternatives -Pablo Solón31. Committing to a Just Transition - Jonathon PorrittReframes the inevitability of climate chaos through a unique, culture-centred approach.