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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth Unbound Collective share stories from India, Australia, Canada and Scotland. Chapters draw on Indigenous, Black, Southern, ecosocialist and ecofeminist perspectives to call for more radical and interconnected ideas of justice and solidarity.
This accessible book features diverse voices that speak with the planet in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. It explores the politics and practices of working towards a future where the planet thrives.
Michele Lobo is an Australian geographer of Indian heritage who explores race, encounter and planetary futures. She is Honorary Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University.
Eve Mayes is Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her work is situated at the intersection of the sociology of education and social movement studies.
Laura Bedford is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include political ecology, green criminology, state-corporate crime, activism and resistance, and policing.
1. Earth Unbound: Situating Climate Change, Solidarity and Planetary Justice - Michele Lobo, Eve Mayes and Laura Bedford
Part 1: Solidarity as Responsibility, Resurgence and Regeneration
2. Waking Up the Snake: Ancient Wisdom for Regeneration - Anne Poelina, Bill Webb, Sandra Wooltorton and Naomi Godden
3. Farmers as Allies Towards Ecological Justice: Lessons from Water Markets, Colonialism and Theft in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin - Alexander Baird
4. Freshwater Access, Equity and Empowerment in the Indian Sundarban Region - Anwesha Haldar, Kalyan Rudra and Lakshminarayan Satpati
5. Climate Change and Oceanic Responsibilities: Listening and Dancing with Saltwater Country, Australia - Lowell Hunter and Michele Lobo
Interstice 1: Saturated Strands of (In/Re)Surgent Solidarity - Yin Paradies
Part 2: Solidarity without Borders
6. Asserting Indigenous Self-Determination and Climate Justice through Resisting Coal: A Global North-South Comparison - Ruchira Talukdar
7. Popular Intellectuals, Social Movement Frames and the Evolution of the Anti-Mining Movement in the Niyamgiri Mountains, Odisha, India - Souvik Lal Chakraborty and Julian S. Yates
8. Solidarity as Praxis in Class Struggle - Laura Bedford
Interstice 2: The Gifts of Failure - The Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective (GTDF)
Interstice 3: Face to Face with the Super Cyclone Amphan - Kolkata, 20 May, 2020 - Sanjana Dutt
Part 3: Learning and Living with Climate Change as Situated Solidarity
9. Planetary Justice and Decolonizing Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in Solidarity with Country - Aleryk Fricker
10. Towards Transformative Social Resilience: Charting a Path with Climate-Vulnerable Communities in The Indian Sundarbans - Jenia Mukherjee, Amrita Sen, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Aditya Ghosh
11. Profane Knowledge, Climate Anxiety and the Politics of Education - Callum McGregor, Beth Christie and Marlies Kustatscher
12. White Audacity and Student Climate Justice Activism - Natasha Abhayawickrama, Eve Mayes and Dani Villafaña
Interstice 4: Soil Geopolitics and Research as Ecological Praxis - Robin Bellingham
Postscript: The Earth is Undone - Alicia Flynn