ABSTRACT
This part illuminates social justice as an environmental concern. Refugee rights, land rights and sovereignty are traditionally understood as humanist issues, yet this part investigates in what ways they can also be considered environmental concerns. Starting with an outline of the ideas of environmental justice, custodianship, sovereignty and cosmopolitics, I introduce this part's texts, Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains and Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip . Although written from markedly different perspectives—one from that of a political prisoner, the other from that of an Indigenous Australian family—both reveal insights into the relation between human and land rights, putting forward a holistic sense of social justice.
