The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism introduces contemporary forms of grassroots climate activism from around the world through the lenses of a variety of academic disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism introduces contemporary forms of grassroots climate activism from around the world through the lenses of a variety of academic disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives. Focusing on bottom-up case studies, it showcases innovative and creative approaches, as well as the knowledge of those working towards swift decarbonisation, just transitions, and climate justice.
Grassroots climate activism presents a rich body of material to be studied not only by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists, but also by scholars in the humanities and the creative arts. This timely handbook explores climate activism across six continents, and it provides perspectives from climate activists themselves. The authors interrogate a range of key questions: what forms of mobilisation, organisation, and practice constitute grassroots climate activism, and how have these changed over the last decade? What are the boundaries of the climate movement and how does it interact with, or differ from, other social movements? How do activists engage with the moral dimensions of the climate crisis? How do grassroots engagements with climate struggles give shape to plural, site-specific, but nonetheless interconnected, forms of climate activism? What tools do climate activists use to create functioning and effective local, national, and transnational networks? How has climate activism been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic? What is the relationship between critical scholarship and climate activism? What methodologies are particularly effective for studying climate activism, and why?
This handbook aims to inspire others to devote more attention to grassroots climate activism. It brings together established and up-and-coming scholars, scholar-activists, and practitioners who present novel, cutting-edge research and new findings exploring current developments in different parts of the world. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of climate activism, climate solutions, climate and society, human-environmental crises, grassroots activism, and social movements. It will also be of interest to practitioners involved in climate action and to all those who are ready to launch their own grassroots initiatives, or support one of the many already underway.
1. Grassroots Climate Activism Across Six Continents Part I: Accounts
from the Ground: The Fight for Climate Justice Introduction
2. NoDAPL and the
continued fight for Tribal Self-Determination by Federally Recognized Indian
Tribes in the United States
3. Indigenous Climate Justice and Epistemic
Politics in Amazonia
4. Brazilian Grassroots Climate Activism in Unequal
Waterscapes
5. Pacific Youth and Climate Activism: Safeguarding Our
Faasinomaga
6. Realising Common Ground: Custodianship of Country and Youth
Climate Action.
7. Action, Inertia, and the Stories that Get us Moving Part
II: Climate Artivism Introduction
8. Climate Activism and Attunement through
Creative Practices
9. A Contemplative Pedagogy of Listening
10. The Sonic
Work of Transnational Youth Climate Movements
11. Performing Transformative
Climate Justice
12. Turning a Leaf: Climate Activism in English-language
Writing
13. Wild Hope and Curatorial Activism Part III: Diverse Modes of
Organising Different Constituencies Introduction
14. Nanna Mobilities:
Environmental Policy and Protest Movements in Australia and the UK
15. Young
Peoples Climate Activism
16. Pandemic Possibilities: The Corona Crisis as
Perceived Opportunity and Threat for Climate Activists
17. Youth Climate
Activists Practices on Social Media in Belgium and France
18. Challenging
Politics to Do (and Be) Better: Young Peoples Climate Activism Role in the
Italian Political Landscape
19. Christian Communities as Climate Champions
Part IV: Civil Disobedience and Litigation vs Criminalising and Politicising
Climate Activism Introduction 20 Extinction Rebellion and Non-Violent Civil
Disobedience
21. System Change, Not Climate Change: The Climate Justice
Movement in Germany 2008-2022
22. Unburnable Coal and Unlabelled Climate
Activism in China
23. Beyond Protest: How Legal Actions Drive Climate Justice
24. Academic Freedom v Climate Change Denial: How the Politics of Research
Funding Shape the Possibilities for Researching Grassroots Activism Part V:
Grassroots Critical Perspectives on Climate Actions Introduction
25.
Grassroots Climate Activism in North Africa: Local, Personal and Radical
26.
Climate Change Infrastructures and Transnational Activist Networks
27.
Community-Led Responses to Climate-Induced Disasters in Zimbabwe: Towards a
Politico-Community-Based Model
28. Climate Activism and Environmental
Politics in Mongolia
29. Grassroots vs Greenwashing: The Climate Movement and
Animal Agriculture Part VI: Fighting Against False Solutions and Prefiguring
Alternatives Introduction
30. No Greenwashing of Fossil Gas - Creating a
Grassroots Transatlantic Climate Bridge Against False Solutions
31. Climate
Activism and the Political-Economic Landscape in Nigeria
32. Grounding the
Global Climate Movement: Eco-socialist militancy and Neo-rural
experimentations in the present Environmental Activism in Italy
33. Promise
Motivation: Films that Encourage Grassroots Climate Activism
34. Insider
Climate Activism: Slowing Down or Speeding Up to Decarbonize? Part VII:
Epistemological Questions and New Praxis Introduction
35. Knowledge in the
Frame: The Epistemology of Extinction Rebellion
36. Convening Climate
Activism in Canada: Conflicting Expertise and the Production of the Problem
37. Climate Activism in K-12 Formal Education Across North American Contexts
38. People Powered Climate Justice: Challenges and Possibilities in Engaging
Activists in Strategic Capacity Building
39. Building Regenerative Cultures
in Extinction Rebellion Activism and Academic Research
40. A Future Through
Climate Activism: An Outlook Index
Sabine von Mering is Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Professor of German and Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
Thomas E. Bell has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Kent, UK, where he is an associate lecturer at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology.
Alexandre da Silva Faustino has a PhD in urban geography completed at the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and is a member of The Alliance for Praxis Research.
Wendy Steele is Professor of Sustainability and Critical Urban Governance in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia and co-Chair of Future Earth Australia (FEA).
Ann Ward has a PhD in sociology from Brandeis University, USA and works at the Office of Sustainability at Tufts University, USA.
Mariana Arjona Soberón is a PhD candidate at the Rachel Carson Center and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany.
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