Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies
| Published date | 01 May 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221127166 |
| Author | Lisa Tilley,Anupama M Ranawana,Andrew Baldwin,Tyler M Tully |
| Date | 01 May 2023 |
https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221127166
Politics
2023, Vol. 43(2) 141 –152
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Race and climate change:
Towards anti-racist ecologies
Lisa Tilley
SOAS University of London, UK
Anupama M Ranawana
University of St Andrews, UK
Andrew Baldwin
Durham University, UK
Tyler M Tully
Oxford University, UK
Abstract
Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against
the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather
events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism.
Building on that existing work, contributors to this collection extend and deepen understandings
of the material entanglements of race and ecology in our contemporary conjuncture. Speaking
from various scales and locations, including the Caribbean, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Palestine, the
authors reflect on those sites while also collectively recovering and amplifying lineages of thought
on ecology from across the South. As the contributions collected here show, the traps set by
global structures of race also direct mainstream climate solutions back towards the expropriation,
premature death, or prevention of birth of peoples of colour by various means, from militarised
conservation to eugenic populationism. Confronting the racial logics of both ecological harm and
its supposed solutions is therefore a key task of this collection. As a collective, however, the
issue’s contributors also carve out paths to reparation and structural change which form the
contours of an anti-racist ecology for our times.
Keywords
climate change, ecology, environment, justice, race
Received: 23rd August 2022; Revised version received: 24th August 2022; Accepted: 25th August 2022
Corresponding author:
Lisa Tilley, SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG, UK.
Email: lt28@soas.ac.uk
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Special Issue: Race & Climate Change
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