Urban Movements and Climate Change

Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-94-6372-666-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Protest and Social Movements

From the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations. While the effects of the climate crisis are becoming more extreme and tangible across the globe with every passing day, urban social movements and their radical strategies to resist climate injustice often remain concealed from sight. Contributors to this volume ask how would it be to look at the politics of urban loss-and-damage not from the highly securitized zones of climate summits, but from favelas in Rio de Janeiro, flood-prone communities in São Paulo, urban gardens in Naples, or neighborhoods resisting climate gentrification in New York City? This book explores diverse worlds and praxis of urban social movements resisting the rising tides of climate crisis and social injustice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armiero, Marco

de Rosa, Salvatore Paolo

Turhan, Ethemcan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword: From Occupy Climate Change! to Confronting Loss and Damage - David Naguib Pellow

1. Occupy Climate Change: An introduction - Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, and Ethemcan Turhan

2. Hope in something: An earthly tragedy in five acts - Vanesa Castán Broto

3. Struggles for democratic decarbonization: Lessons from New York City - Ashley Dawson

4. Disobey, block, organize: The politics and strategies of grassroots climate activism in Malmö and Sweden - Salvatore Paolo De Rosa

5. Catalyzing transformational action for climate change adaptation: The Ala Wai management plan in Honolulu, U.S.A. - Valentine Huet

6. Turning urban fragilities into resources for a just climate governance - Gilda Berruti and Maria Federica Palestino

7. Narratives on Babylon Hill: Exploring the making of a community and its urban forest through oral and environmental history (1985-2015) - Lise Sedrez and Natasha Augusto Barbosa

8. Repositioning marginal spaces in climate adaptation: Periphery, power and possibility - Karen Paiva Henrique

9. Immigrant communities in Europe as situated knowledge-holders for postcolonial and feminist urban adaptation to climate health risks - Panagiota Kotsila

10. Small towns facing big problems: Sustainable development, social choice and the challenge of local-level organizing for the environment Insights from Flagler Beach, U.S.A. - Chad Boda

11. Practices of resilience: questioning urban adaptation in the Chilean social upsurge - Cristina Visconti

12. A user manual for just cities? - Aurash Khawarzad

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

de Rosa, Salvatore Paolo
Salvatore Paolo de Rosa is a researcher at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen. Previously, he was a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, where he also received his PhD in Human Geography. With a background in anthropology and political ecology, his research focuses on collective action and socio-environmental transformations towards sustainability and justice.

Armiero, Marco
Marco Armiero is ICREA Research Professor, Institut d'Història de la Ciència (IHC), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain and president of the European Society of Environmental History. Formerly, he directed the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has extensively published on environmental justice, climate change, migration, and nationalization of nature.

Turhan, Ethemcan
Ethemcan Turhan is an assistant professor of environmental planning at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research is situated in the broadly defined field of political ecology with empirical and conceptual attention to climate justice and energy democracy. He is the co-editor of the book, Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements (Routledge, 2019).