Struggles for Climate Justice Uneven Geographies and the Politics of
This book provides an accessible but intellectually rigorous introduction to the global social movement for ‘climate justice’ and addresses the socially uneven consequences of anthropogenic climate change. Deploying relational understandings of nature-soc
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phies a r g o e G Uneven ics of t i l o P e and th ion Connect
Struggles for Climate Justice
Brandon Barclay Derman
Struggles for Climate Justice Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection
Brandon Barclay Derman Department of Environmental Studies University of Illinois at Springfield Springfield, IL, USA
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In memory of my grandparents
Acknowledgments
I owe the activists, advocates, and governmental staff who generously made time to answer my interview questions for the inspiration that has guided this book and much of what insight it contains. Its deficits, of course, are mine. Many of those whose voices and visions inform the text most meaningfully must remain anonymous. Broader thanks are also due to them, however. The individuals I interviewed and whose work I observed in making this book devote their working lives and often much more to the cause of a more just and sustainable future for us all. Before this project began, mentors and friends at Hunter College of the City University of New York opened the doors that led onward to it. Among them are Jochen Albrecht, Laxmi Ramasubramanian, and Haydee Salmun. The work would still not have begun or gathered necessary steam, however, without many conversations at the University of Washington (UW) among those connected with Three Degrees Warmer and its offshoots: Jeni Krencicki Barcelos, Jenn Marlow, David Battisti, Stephen Gardiner, Gre
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