ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the limitations of existing structures, rules and modes of reasoning in the context of climate change, and the transformative possibilities in certain modes of climate activism for challenging powerful institutions and unsettling our established patterns of thinking. Activism intersects with law, and thereby generates additional possibilities for climate narratives, when activists commit illegal acts. The foray of climate tricksters into the marketplace provides an additional dimension to the deployment of trickster strategies by climate activists. Climate activism frequently takes the form of embodied performance, as activists enact climate change impacts and concerns and even etch these concerns on their bodies. The chapter investigates the links between activist narratives and particular forms of legal and extra-legal climate narratives. Climate change is creating, demonstrably, a planetary crisis. Climate change poses a challenge for law’s empire but so does the narrative of climate change as emergency.
