Confronting Climate Coloniality

This timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality. Confronting Climate Coloniality exposes how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism co-produce and exacerbate the climate crisis, create disproportionate impacts on those who contributed the least to climate change, and influence global and local responses. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through processes of neoliberalism, racial capitalism, development interventions, economic growth models, media, and education. Confronting climate coloniality entails decolonizing climate discourses and governance, challenging the dominant framings and policies, interrogating material, geopolitical, and institutional arrangements for tackling the climate crisis, and centering Global South and Indigenous knowledge, experiences, strategies, and solutions. Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice provides critical insights and strategies for transformative action and fosters deeper understandings of the structural injustices entangled with climate change in governance, framings, policies, responses, and praxis. This collection offers pioneering interdisciplinary research on alternative frameworks for decolonized approaches for more meaningful climate justice. With originality, scholarly rigor, and emphasis on amplifying marginalized voices, this collection is an indispensable resource for interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, and activists committed to advancing climate justice.

Farhana Sultana, PhD, is Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University, USA and Visiting Faculty Fellow at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University, Bangladesh. She is an interdisciplinary feminist political ecologist researching the entanglements of climate justice, water governance, international development, and anti-colonial politics.

List of Figures List of Contributors Preface 1. Urgency, Complexities, and Strategies to Confront Climate Coloniality and Decolonize Pathways for Climate Justice Farhana Sultana PART I: CONFRONTING AND DECOLONIZING CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 2. The Coloniality of Climate Apartheid: Excising Colonial Legacies in Climate Development and Governance Joshua Long 3. The De/Coloniality of Global Climate Governance and Indigenous Politics within the UNFCCC Jamie Haverkamp 4. State Power and Capital in the Climate Crisis: A Theory of Fossil Imperialism Bernardo Jurema and Elias König PART II: CONFRONTING AND DECOLONIZING CLIMATE FRAMINGS AND POLICIES 5. The Politics of "Heaviness" in Climate Emergency Diren Valayden 6. Buying the Dead, Burying the Poor: Climate Change and Pastoral Drought Coping Strategies in East AfricaBilal Butt 7. Towards an African Epistemic Site for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Action Aby L. Sène 8. AlterNatives to Blue Carbon Coloniality: An -Oiwi Perspective on Redirecting Funding to Indigenous Stewardship Andrew Kalani Carlson PART III: CONFRONTING AND DECOLONIZING CLIMATE RESPONSES AND PRAXIS 9. Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimization of Climate Coloniality Manisha Anantharaman 10. Fuera SpaceX: Resisting Climate Coloniality via Terra Nullius within Contested Boca Chica State Park Danielle Zoe Rivera and Eliza Breder 11. Antiblackness in Flood Risk in Hull: The Afterlife of Colonialism Michael Lomotey 12. Crises, Coloniality, and Energy Transformations in Puerto Rico Laura Kuhl, Marla Perez-Lugo, Carlos Arriaga Serrano, Cecilio Ortiz-Garcia, Ryan Ellis, and Jennie C. Stephens 13. Afterword Mimi Sheller Index