ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the tensions, collaborations and missed opportunities for solidarity between radical environmental movements and other social justice movements. Drawing on extensive interviews and fieldwork data, I argue that while environmental movements have a long and troubled history of racism, nativism, heteropatriarchy and classism, there are significant segments that have invested energy into reimagining their work, reframing our socioenvironmental crisis and transforming strategies and tactics to address it. The evidence suggests new ways of defining environmental and environmental justice politics and new ways of framing democracy and the polity itself.