ABSTRACT
This chapter provides details of a grassroots network that defies the inevitability narrative and, like the extensive work of G. J. Hugo, offers important and critical contributions to the serious challenges facing the Pacific Islands region in the future. It analyses the Pacific Climate Warriors network, in particular their blockade of Newcastle coal port, to show how the activists are resisting narratives of future inevitability of their Pacific homelands disappearing, and re-envisioning islanders as warriors defending rights to homeland and culture. The chapter focuses on how the Pacific Climate Warriors network is recasting historical patriarchal figures by evoking feminine characteristics, creating a blurring of gender identities. It deals with a brief overview of climate change in the Pacific Islands region and of literature foregrounding a critical feminist perspective on climate change. The chapter provides a more in-depth discussion of the Pacific Climate Warriors and their role in re-envisioning a Pacific Island future.
