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7 - Climate Justice and Literatures of the Global South

from Part II - Current Issues in Climate Change Criticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

By
Chitra Sankaran
Edited by
Adeline Johns-Putra  and
Kelly Sultzbach
Adeline Johns-Putra
Affiliation:
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Kelly Sultzbach
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
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Summary

Climate justice is a term used for framing global warming and its manifold consequences as not only an environmental issue but also as involving ethical and political questions. In this chapter, I examine the usefulness of imaginative literatures from the Global South that focus on climate catastrophes and analyse them to probe the ways in which they add value. My central argument is undergirded by the idea that to achieve climate justice, it is necessary to involve disenfranchised groups in the policy-making process, for which imaginative literatures emerging from situated locations that give voice to their troubles become most pertinent.

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environmental justicesocial justiceinternal refugeesSouth AsiaSoutheast Asia
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate , pp. 114 - 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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