Producing and Contesting Climate Injustice

Abstract

Climate injustice is produced by specific relationalities. Climate justice initiatives raise challenges to and endeavor to supplant those relationalities. This chapter considers some fundamental conditions of both processes, establishing as it does so the contours of their substantive origins as well as the analytical perspective that will animate subsequent chapters. That perspective combines the basic science of climate change and human dimensions thereof with a set of related empirical and conceptual concerns in geography, political ecology, socio-legal and social movement studies, and political theory. Together these help to elucidate both the challenges and the promises of climate justice as a political project.