The extremely uneven and inequitable impacts of climate change mean that differently-located people experience, respond to, and cope with the climate crisis and related vulnerabilities in radically different ways. The coloniality of climate seeps through everyday life across space and time, weighing down and curtailing opportunities possibilities through global racial capitalism, colonial dispossessions, and climate debts. Decolonizing climate needs to tackle with the complexities of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and development in the reproduction of ongoing colonialities through existing global governance structures, discursive framings, and imagined solutions. This means addressing both epistemic violences and material outcomes.
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Farhana Sultana Syracuse University
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Jennifer Rice University of Georgia
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Deondre Smiles University of Victoria
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Meredith DeBoom University of South Carolina
Political Geography Plenary: Farhana Sultana speaks on the unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality
