TY - JOUR
T1 - States of just transition
T2 - Realising climate justice through and against the state
AU - Routledge, Paul
AU - Cumbers, Andrew
AU - Derickson, Kate Driscoll
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Climate justice
KW - Food sovereignty
KW - Remunicipalisation
KW - State theory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.015
DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85035356375
SN - 0016-7185
VL - 88
SP - 78
EP - 86
JO - Geoforum
JF - Geoforum
ER -