Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connection
This comment links the radicalisation of climate justice movements in the Global North across time and space to the long-term environmental justice movements in post-colonial and settler-colonial geographies. I argue that the measures adopted by climate activists mirror the nature of resistance offe...
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description | This comment links the radicalisation of climate justice movements in the Global North across time and space to the long-term environmental justice movements in post-colonial and settler-colonial geographies. I argue that the measures adopted by climate activists mirror the nature of resistance offered by activists against colonialism and its historic and continuing impact on local environments. I present the women-led Chipko Movement in the Himalayas in the 1970s as an example. |
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spelling | doaj.art-b348ce2cf1734f0a9efe5e49ecafc53a2023-11-20T11:19:37ZengNature Portfolionpj Climate Action2731-98142023-10-01211310.1038/s44168-023-00067-0Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connectionNeelakshi Joshi0Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional DevelopmentThis comment links the radicalisation of climate justice movements in the Global North across time and space to the long-term environmental justice movements in post-colonial and settler-colonial geographies. I argue that the measures adopted by climate activists mirror the nature of resistance offered by activists against colonialism and its historic and continuing impact on local environments. I present the women-led Chipko Movement in the Himalayas in the 1970s as an example.https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-023-00067-0 |
spellingShingle | Neelakshi Joshi Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connection npj Climate Action |
title | Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connection |
title_full | Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connection |
title_fullStr | Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connection |
title_full_unstemmed | Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connection |
title_short | Radical movements as a call to climate action: a space-time connection |
title_sort | radical movements as a call to climate action a space time connection |
url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-023-00067-0 |
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