Feeling climate injustice: Affective climate violence, greenhouse gaslighting and the whiteness of climate anxiety
Blanche Verlie
Abstract:This paper explores the process of feeling climate injustice. It aims to situate climate distress as an issue of justice, in order to generate more politically accountable and empowering responses. It firstly situates climate anxiety, solastalgia and climate disaster trauma as symptoms of affective climate violence, where harm that could have been prevented was instead consciously and systematically exacerbated by fossil fuelled political regimes. It articulates witnessing as a practice of affective climate ju… Show more
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