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Climate Justice in the City

Name: Climate Justice in the City
Brand: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780253077578
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780253077578

Power, Inequality, and the Mobilization for Change

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Edited by Gustavo A. Garcia Lopez, Prakash Kashwan, Lauren M. MacLean, Contributions by Teresa Alcantara, Nana Asaase, Gildfred B. Asiamah, Mohammed S. Awal, Hallie Boykins, Avinash Kumar Chanchal, Raquel Cunha Paiva
Imprint: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: May 3, 2027
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 384

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Almost every day, we hear and see disturbing evidence of a growing climate crisis, and more often than not, the poor and marginalized suffer the most from hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and flooding that grow increasingly more extreme. Climate Justice in the City spotlights the fight for climate justice mobilizing from the ground up in cities of the Global South, centering community environmental activism and local movements. With contributions from practitioners, artists, and scholars in environmental science, geography, economics, political science, art history, architecture, and sustainable design, this edited volume examines people's basic life needs and livelihoods where the climate crisis is most keenly experienced: from water scarcity to electricity outages, from shrinking greenspaces to constraints on mobility, from heat islands to faulty building design. Its essays focus on major Global South cities, such as Accra, Delhi, Cairo, Beijing and Buenos Aires, as well as pockets of the "South" in the North, such as New York City. These cities are marked by sharp inequalities in the social and environmental impacts of uneven urban development, which are aggravated by the climate crisis. Yet these cities also house initiatives at the forefront of climate-just solutions-ranging from street protests and social media campaigns, mutual-aid food kitchens and solidarity brigades, citizen-protected neighborhood parks, heat-reducing architecture interventions, bicycle-based urban mobility for women vendors, participatory climate plans, and Afro-Indigenous muralism. Offering an in-depth, accessible, and comparative analysis that draws on extended engagements with a diverse group of activists and scholars, Climate Justice in the City is a call to action for all, highlighting not only structural inequalities but also the solutions and community-based initiatives being mobilized from the ground up.

Gustavo Garcia-Lopez is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Prakash Kashwan is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Climate Justice Network. He is author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico and (with Aseem Hasnain) of Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action. Lauren M. MacLean is the Thomas P. O'Neill Chair of Public Life and Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at Northeastern University. She is author of Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire and of Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (IUP, 2026).

Acknowledgments 1. Understanding Grassroots Climate Justice Initiatives in the Urban Global South, by Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, Lauren M. MacLean, and Prakash Kashwan 2. Urban Justice in a Warming World: A Political Economy of Urban Displacement, by Craig A. Johnson Part I: Mobilizing Across Scales and Spaces to Confront Entrenched Inequalities 3. Enacting Intersectional Solidarity in Climate Justice Struggles: Mutual Aid in Puerto Rico's Post-Maria Recovery, by Gustavo Garcia-Lopez and Fernando Tormos-Aponte The Dirty Hands - VIII - Mayra Santos Febres (trans. Gustavo Garcia-Lopez) Frontlines of Disaster - Jose "Primo" Hernandez / AgitArte 4. Defending Greenspaces for Ecofeminist Climate Justice: The Red de Defensoras del Ambiente y el Buen Vivir in Buenos Aires, by Maria Jose Lubertino Beltran 5. Mobilizing for Climate Justice in Defense of the Coast: The #SavePulicat Campaign Against Mega-City Development in Chennai, by Bharat Punjabi, Krupa Ge, and Craig A. Johnson Dream - Praneeta Mudaliar Chennai - Ghana NB 6. #YouthforClimateJustice: The Sunrise Movement in Ithaca, New York, by Praneeta Mudaliar, Keeley Firinne, and Hallie Boykins Part II: Collaborating to Produce Knowledge Relevant to Climate Action and Justice 7. Water and Climate Justice in Urban Conflicts: Transforming Everyday Life in Mexico City, by Andres E. Sierra Martinez Water Protectors - Jose "Primo" Hernandez / AgitArte 8. Urban Art and the Construction of New Landscapes: Insights from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Juliana Gomes Parreiras and Raquel Cunha Paiva 9. Low-Tech and Low-Cost Co-Created Interventions for Climate Justice in Informal Areas of Cairo, by Heba Allah Essam E. Khalil Imbaba's Green Nucleus - Yasmina Ragab Urban Greening Against the Fire - Raquel Echenique 10. Addressing Inequalities in Urban Heat Islands: The Role of Networks of Municipalities for Climate Planning in Urban Chile, by Pamela Smith Guerra and Teresa Alcantara 11. Community-Led Climate Resiliency by Latinx and Asian Immigrants: Protesting "Industry City" in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, by Khai Hoan Nguyen Part III: Catalyzing Democracy and Citizenship in Pursuit of Climate Justice 12. The Politics of the Electricity Crisis in Urban Ghana: Spatial Inequality and How Citizens Demand Accountability in a New Democracy, by Mohammed S. Awal, Gildfred B. Asiamah, and Lauren M. MacLean Rain Rain Come My Way - Nana Asaase 13. Class, Gender, and Migrant Realities in Urban Mobility and Climate Justice, by Avinash Kumar Chanchal Homes from Sticks and Urban Vendors - Anu Priya 14. Finding Climate Justice in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Energy Transition Policies in Urban China, by Bi Zhao 15. Conclusions: Climate Justice in the City, by Prakash Kashwan, Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, and Lauren M. MacLean Contributors Index

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