Description:
Arguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Whether the situation be displacement within cities through carbon gentrification or the increasing securitization of elite spaces for climate protection, climate justice and urban justice are intimately connected.
Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures. They also highlight knowledge produced within communities already seeking transformative change and demonstrate meaningful learning from activist groups working to address the socionatural injustices caused by the impact of climate change. The editors' introduction situates our current climate emergency within historical processes of colonization, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy, while the editors' conclusion offers pathways forward through abolition, care, and reparations. Where other books focus on the project of critique, this collection advances real-world politics to help academics, practitioners, and social justice groups imagine, create, and enact more just urban futures under climate change.Brief description: JENNIFER L. RICE is associate professor of geography and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia.
Review Quotes: Cities are both sites of climate injustice and also potential spaces for revolutionary changes and equitable coexistence. Urban Climate Justice is a critically important book that invites, encourages, and showcases transformative pathways for more-just urban futures. In its careful curation of transnational case studies of climate urbanism, interdisciplinary theorizations, and praxis of grounded collaborations, the book demonstrates how climate justice and urban justice are intertwined and hold possibilities for secure, equal, and resilient futures on a changing planet.--Farhana Sultana "coeditor of The Right to Water: Politics, Governance, and Social Struggles"