ABSTRACT

It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences. As a result, limited analyses must be abandoned in favour of intersectional theories and practices.

Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability is an interdisciplinary collection which addresses global climate change and sustainability by engaging with the issues of race, gender, and class through an intersectional lens. The book challenges readers to foster new theoretical and practical linkages and to think beyond the traditional, and oftentimes reductionist, environmental science frame by examining issues within their turbulent political, cultural and personal landscapes. Through a variety of media and writing styles, this collection is unique in its presentation of a complex and integrated analysis of global climate change and its implications. Its companion book, Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change, addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice.

This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and both undergraduate and post-graduate students in the areas of Environmental Studies, Climate Change, Gender Studies and International studies as well as those seeking a more intersectional analysis of GCC.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Opportunities for renewal: intersectional praxis for just sustainabilities

part 1|73 pages

Air

chapter 2|2 pages

The Virgin and the seed

chapter 3|12 pages

Womanism and agroecology

An intersectional praxis seed keeping as acts of political warfare

chapter 4|8 pages

An economy of hope

The surprising rise of a “Grassroots Democratic Economy” (GDE)

chapter 5|11 pages

Intersectionality, ecology, food

Conflict theory's missing lens

chapter 6|7 pages

Global warming as North-South conflict

The role of unconscious racism 1

chapter 7|3 pages

The Air Around Me

chapter 9|12 pages

Of starving horses and growing grass

Resilience versus dependency in a Caribbean fishing community

part 2|63 pages

Earth

chapter 11|2 pages

How Dare You

chapter 13|14 pages

The farmer and the witch

Replanting the seeds of indigeneity

chapter 144|1 pages

Dia de la Tierra

chapter 16|11 pages

Climate change and sustainable agriculture

Why inclusive farmers' markets matter 1

chapter 18|1 pages

Mending the Earth

part 3|65 pages

Fire

chapter 19|2 pages

Before I was baptized

chapter 20|1 pages

The Eagle's Eye

chapter 24|1 pages

Triumphant

chapter 25|12 pages

Family farmers can feed the world and cool the planet!

The food sovereignty struggle in the climate justice movement

chapter 26|12 pages

Environment of the margins

Reconsidering environmental racism for sustainable action

chapter 27|7 pages

Ubuntu

part 4|58 pages

Water

chapter 29|1 pages

Yemaya

chapter 30|13 pages

Catholics, socio-ecological ethics and global climate change

Incarnations of green praxis

chapter 31|13 pages

Our climate, our change

Using visual and interactive practices to expand participation and leadership in climate action

chapter 33|10 pages

Global Water Dances

Embodying water solutions

chapter 34|3 pages

Mni

chapter 35|2 pages

Whale prayer

chapter 36|10 pages

Forced in or left out

Experiencing green from community redevelopment to voluntary simplicity and the potential in-between

part 5|72 pages

Æther

chapter 37|2 pages

Softly Walking

chapter 38|1 pages

Reach

chapter 39|13 pages

A pilgrimage for hope revisited

Grieving together (caminamos preguntando)

chapter 40|11 pages

Of the necessity and difficulty in working across borders

Race, class, gender, and transnational environmental organizing

chapter 42|1 pages

Regenerate

chapter 44|13 pages

Food sovereignty or bust

Transforming the agrifood system is a must

chapter 45|12 pages

Children in a changing climate

How child-centered approaches can build resilience and overcome multiple barriers to adaptation