Building decolonial climate justice movements - Four tensions

Summary

Two St Andrews scholars start from a bind: movements against the racial and colonial capitalism behind the climate crisis are shaped “by many of the same dynamics they oppose”. They trace four tensions, over the state, scale, coalitions and urgency, and offer questions rather than fixes, since there is “no position of purity from which one can perch”.

Rationale

Their bind is ours: harmful dispositions get lived out “even through work that seeks to stop and repair harm”. The four tensions map where that happens in climate justice movements.