Climate change is already affecting us and its impacts are felt unevenly across lines of geography, race, gender, class, disability and more. However, vibrant resistance along multiple fronts has demanded swift and meaningful action on climate change. This session is seeking papers related to activist movements focused on climate justice. The theme of this session flows from the conference theme “Creating from Crisis” and emphasizes the creative ways that activists have resisted the fossil fuel industry and climate injustice. Some examples of the potential case studies/areas of focus for papers that might fall under this session include:
Pipeline resistance movements
Resistance to coal extraction/mountaintop removal
Resistance to oil and gas extraction/fracking
Just transition movements
Divestment movements
Renewable energy or Green New Deal advocacy
This is just a brief list of examples, but anything that falls at the intersection of activism and climate justice, with an emphasis on creative resistance, will be considered for this panel. The primary intention is to emphasize the creativity and diversity of strategies across the climate justice movement.
Organizer: Cameron Baller
Please submit your abstracts to Cameron Baller at crballer1@vt.edu by 15 December 2023.
Modality: In-person