The violence of (in)action: communities, climate and business-as-usual

Diprose, Gradon; Bond, Sophie; Thomas, Amanda; Barth, Jule; Urquhart, Heather

doi:10.1093/cdj/bsx023

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“…Regulative and legislative changes were made, and transnational oil and gas corporations were encouraged to invest. As noted above, elsewhere we have documented the ways in which government actions, the media, and climate justice activists have contested and debated oil and gas exploration in the EEZ (see Bond et al, 2019;Diprose et al, 2017). Our work is theorised in relation to both a broad ethos of democracy (requiring a vibrant contestatory sphere) and the kind of post-politicising processes, tactics, and discourses that are entangled with contemporary forms of neoliberal global capitalism.…”

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“…We can group these effects into those related to public disdain of the activists as a group, and those that affected individual subjectivities. In relation to public disdain, participants often referred to one particular action in Aotearoa New Zealand that involved the blockade of the entrances to three banks that were heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry as part of http://350.org's 2016 divestment campaign (see Diprose et al, 2017). The blockade action became violent and was followed by a media storm.…”

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“…These processes and tactics constrain dissent and close down spaces of debate for alternatives. In this context, we have argued elsewhere that climate justice groups cleave open spaces for dissent in a variety of ways that both contest and reject depoliticisation and are re‐politicising (see Bond et al, 2019; Diprose et al, 2017; Diprose et al, 2016). This work clearly reflects Pulido's exterior life of politics.…”

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Making and unmaking political subjectivities: Climate justice, activism, and care

Bond

Thomas

Diprose

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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Much recent work on climate justice and activism focuses on the broader sociopolitical economic contexts in which contestation occurs. These contestatory spaces in neoliberalised economies are frequently depoliticised through a variety of processes, strategies, practices, and actors. Recently this has been framed as the post-politicalwhereby dissent is legitimised as "democratic" only when it does not challenge the status quo of business-as-usual. Most of the analysis and commentary on the post-political has focused on policy or democratic decisionmaking processes and conflict at relatively broad scales, rather than nuanced empirical case studies. In this paper we draw on an empirical case study to explore how processes of delegitimisation affect climate justice activists in emotional and personal ways. We argue that while the political subjectivities of climate justice activists are fragile achievements, a key aspect that sustains them is an ethic of care for humans and non-humans, both near and more distant, who are affected by climate change. Fostering this ethic of care is one key way for climate activists to continue enacting responsibility for climate justice in a way that contests depoliticising and delegitimisation processes.

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Making and unmaking political subjectivities: Climate justice, activism, and care

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Thomas

Diprose

2020

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“…In particular, the work of Bond et al. (2019), Diprose et al. (2017), and Phelan and Shearer (2009) in Aotearo New Zealand highlights the intracacies and strategies of state and corporate entities against climate action.…”

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Resource extraction and intersectoral research: Engaging accountable relations in the Environment Community Health Observatory Network

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Farrales

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Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The inaugural gathering of The Environment Community Health Observatory (ECHO) Network is a network of academic, non-profit, and health authority scholars and practitioners committed to understanding and responding to the cumulative impacts of resource extraction. The Network is embedded within multiple jurisdictions and institutional contexts, reflecting the Network’s efforts to work across sectors to address questions arising in communities and regions experiencing the overlapping influences of rurality, remoteness, and resource extraction. In this paper, we draw from entrance interviews and a group exercise with Network members to explore the complexity of accountability as an unfolding challenge for research that addresses resource extraction in Canada. We locate these findings within the current settler colonial context in which the Network is embroiled, arguing that a condition of settler colonialism is erasing not only Indigenous legal orders but also accountability mechanisms outside of state-based discourses. In making this argument, we understand settler colonialism as a failed yet persistent project. We contend that collectively engaging through situated and relational accountabilities beyond simply accounting for “accountability”, ECHO Network members—and others looking to social and environmental change—are critically challenged to approach settler-state apparatuses for transformative engagement beyond merely recognizing that accountability is relational.

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“…Furthermore, despite their non-violent kaupapa during the fossil fuel divestment campaign, climate action and climate justice activists received a violent response from the public at the encouragement of the police (Diprose et al, 2017). Despite being issue-driven, the range and intensity of environmental protest in Aotearoa is shaped by political opportunities and threats (O'Brien, 2017).…”

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Moving at the Speed of Trust: Radical and Progressive Change through Climate Justice Movements in Aotearoa

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<p>Human-induced climate change is already having an acute impact on many lives and livelihoods. This is expected to escalate, especially for “disadvantaged people and communities in countries at all levels of development” (Pachauri et al., 2014, p. 13). This thesis is situated within post- and critical development, enabling critique of mainstream development alongside the exploration of alternative, bottom-up forms of development, such as social movements. Following a social constructionist epistemology, it utilises qualitative methodologies (in-person and virtual in-depth interviews) to navigate the complex, fluid, and subjective field of climate justice. This research situates the emerging climate justice movements in Aotearoa as key to understanding how radical, progressive societal change is articulated in the contemporary era to mitigate and adapt to anthropogenic climate change. Several core themes emerge as part of the research, including how various actors (organisations, sub-movements, and individuals) relate to each other and the world around them. This research asks and addresses not only what climate justice is in Aotearoa and who is involved, but also which theories of change operate within these emerging social movements? The data in this research outlines that climate justice movements in Aotearoa are accessible, inclusive, relational, accountable and frontline community-led, the antithesis of the current dominant structures and systems of society. These movements build upon other rights and justice movements, notably: Indigenous justice, disability justice, intersectional feminism, workers’ rights, and intergenerational justice. The development and negotiation of a collective climate justice identity is shaped by several interconnected tensions: partisanship versus non-partisanship, internal conformity versus diversity, and ecosystem versus ‘egosystem’. These tensions can also impede connection and understanding, at times leading to substantial harm to individuals, communities, and climate justice more broadly. This thesis outlines multiple forces shaping the actualisation of justice in an Aotearoa experiencing climate change. Fundamentally, this thesis highlights that climate justice is an ongoing journey of relationships and negotiations that “move at the speed of trust”.</p>

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The violence of (in)action: communities, climate and business-as-usual

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Making and unmaking political subjectivities: Climate justice, activism, and care

Making and unmaking political subjectivities: Climate justice, activism, and care

Resource extraction and intersectoral research: Engaging accountable relations in the Environment Community Health Observatory Network

Moving at the Speed of Trust: Radical and Progressive Change through Climate Justice Movements in Aotearoa

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