Routledge, P, Cumbers, A and Driscoll Derickson, K (2018) States of Just Transition: realizing climate justice through and against the state. Geoforum, 88. pp. 78-86. ISSN 0016-7185
Abstract
Possibilities for engendering sustainable and just futures are foundering in part because key resources are managed by elites through ‘top down’ environmental governance and management, and knowledge production regimes, largely committed to retaining the status quo, fail to pursue new ways of managing resource consumption and distribution. In this paper, we argue for an alternative climate justice agenda that is enabled through grassroots mobilisation in collaboration with state action. To do this we consider the state as a continued terrain of possibility for positive social, economic and environmental change, noting the imperative of historically attentive state-enabled redistribution along persistent axes of difference. In articulating an alternative understanding of the state, we emphasise the importance of social movements capable of cultivating networked militant particularisms that can be channeled through and beyond state governance processes. In order to ground these ideas, we provide two brief case studies, tracking food sovereignty and energy remunicipalization initiatives.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Geoforum. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Climate justice; State theory; Food sovereignty; Remunicipalisation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Citizenship & Belonging (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2017 16:34 |
Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2019 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.015 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124881 |