Climate justice, commons, and degrowth

dc.contributor.authorPerkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-09T00:59:24Z
dc.date.available2020-03-09T00:59:24Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-05
dc.description.abstractEconomic inequality reduces the political space for addressing climate change, by producing fear-based populism. Only when the safety, social status, and livelihoods of all members of society are assured will voluntary, democratic decisions be possible to reverse climate change and fairly mitigate its effects. Socio-environmental and climate justice, commoning, and decolonization are pre-conditions for participatory, responsible governance that both signals and assists the development of equitable socio-political systems. Degrowth movements, when they explicitly prioritize equity, can help to focus activism for climate justice and sustainable livelihoods. This paper overviews the theoretical grounding for these arguments, drawing from the work of ecofeminist and Indigenous writers. Indigenous (and also ecofeminist) praxis is grounded in activists' leadership for commoning and resistance to extraction, the fossil fuel economy, and commodified property rights. These movements are building a politics of decolonization, respect, solidarity, and hope rather than xenophobia and despair.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadaen_US
dc.identifier.citation''Climate justice, commons, and edgrowth'' Ecological economics 160 (2019) 183-190
dc.identifier.issn0921-8009
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.005en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37070
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsAuthor can archive pre-print and post-print but cannot archive publisher's version/PDFen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canadaen_US
dc.rights.journalhttps://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecoleconen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectClimate justiceen_US
dc.subjectCommons, Degrowthen_US
dc.subjectEconomic Inequalityen_US
dc.subjectClimate Changeen_US
dc.subjectSocio-environmental decolonizationen_US
dc.subjectsocio-political systemen_US
dc.titleClimate justice, commons, and degrowthen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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