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Breaking Consensus, Transforming Metabolisms: Notes on Direct Action against Fossil Fuels through Urban Political Ecology

Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 135–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495160
Published: 01 March 2022
...Salvatore Paolo De Rosa Abstract This article discusses the politics of direct action against fossil fuels put forward by climate justice movements, focusing in particular on the tactic of the blockade. Drawing on the conceptual toolkit of urban political ecology, the argument moves from a critique...
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Climate Insurgency between Academia and Activism: An Interview with David N. Pellow

Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 157–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495174
Published: 01 March 2022
... and the production of environmental and climate injustice, and how grassroots movements have responded to these concerns. Specific movement formations included in this discussion include the Central Coast Climate Justice Network of California, the Movement for Black Lives/Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion...
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Urban Climate Insurgency: An Introduction

Ashley Dawson, Marco Armiero, Ethemcan Turhan, Roberta Biasillo
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495075
Published: 01 March 2022
... dimension of this global climate insurgency that unsettles the dichotomy between rural and urban. It is on the urban terrain, already fissured by racial capitalism but also traversed by antiracist and promigrant movements, that the climate emergency becomes a climate and social justice issue...
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From Waste to Climate: Tackling Climate Change in a Rebel City

Marco Armiero
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 69–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495117
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and Micillo, Allarme rifiuti tossici . 17. Nixon, Slow Violence . 18. Stop Biocidio, “Piattaforma contro il biocidio.” 19. Schlosberg and Collins, “From Environmental to Climate Justice,” 361 . 20. More information about this project and the local opposition in Cavallini...
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Energy States: Unequal Burdens, Climate Transitions, and Postextractive Futures

Ashley Dawson, Macarena Gómez-Barris
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 39–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495103
Published: 01 March 2022
... much else) for over a century. Nonetheless, for NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program Director Jacqui Patterson, renewable energy infrastructure can empower communities that have been historically exploited and marginalized by fossil capitalism, allowing them to generate tangible community...
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Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival

Dean Spade
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971139
Published: 01 March 2020
...Dean Spade This article argues that, in the face of worsening conditions from climate change, enhanced border enforcement, a growing wealth gap, housing crises, and policing, social movements should focus on expanding mutual aid strategies. Mutual aid projects directly address survival needs...
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From the Occupied Parks to the Gardens of the Nation: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Greenery in Post-Gezi Istanbul

Sinan Erensü, Barış İne, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495146
Published: 01 March 2022
..., address climate change, increase the profile of the local real estate market, or simply to boost popularity. 1 Despite being high in demand, green spaces are not uncontroversial, as where and how they are built (or not) may produce socially inequitable outcomes and raise environmental justice concerns...
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Majority Urban Politics and Lives Worth Living in a Time of Climate Emergencies

AbdouMaliq Simone, Solomon Benjamin
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 21–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495089
Published: 01 March 2022
...: Environmental Justice and the Social Construction of Space in Urban Poor Communities .” In Urban Areas and Global Climate Change , Research in Urban Sociology 12, edited by Holt William G. , 321 – 39 . Bingley, UK : Emerald Group , 2012 . Padawangi Rita . “ Reform, Resistance...
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Biohazard: The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism

Ashley Dawson
Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1958899
Published: 01 March 2013
... cafe, 5 December 2008, climateactioncafe.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/20-­theses-­against-­green-­capitalism; and Ashley Dawson, “Climate Justice: The Emerging Movement against Green Capitalism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 109, no. 2 (2010): 313 – 28. 60. Although there are many works...
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Rooting Out Injustices from the Top: The Multispecies Alliance in Morro da Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro

Lise Sedrez, Roberta Biasillo
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 91–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495132
Published: 01 March 2022
... the lens of climate justice of the favela's transformative process is timely, if we consider that the floods between 1995 and 2004 affected 560,000 people in South America, and between 2005 and 2014 this number increased approximately four times, rising to 2.2 million. 4 More specifically, Brazil has...
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The Commons as Accumulation Strategy: Postgenomic Mutations in Biological Property

Coleman Nye
Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7370967
Published: 01 June 2019
... enabled a different mode of property to emerge: the genomic commons. Far from being the alternative to enclosure, the commons itself has become an accumulation strategy in a postgenomic climate in which the aggregation of large quantities of genomic data and the accumulation of racial diversity...
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Cities in Flux

Ashley Dawson, Rashmi Varma, Samuel Perks, Chinki Sinha, Mathew A Varghese ...
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408154
Published: 01 December 2021
... together to hope for an urban commons that is based on justice and freedom. I passed by Gulli no. 37 in Jaffrabad where Mohammad Irfan's body had been kept in a room. He had gone to get milk for his two children one night in New Usmanpur. He was killed by a mob three hundred meters from his house...
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Catastrophe, Care, and All That Remains

Joanne Barker, Jodi A. Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, Sandy Grande, Julia Bernal ...
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 27–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408070
Published: 01 December 2021
... Nation's “movement-oriented document for climate justice and grassroots reform and revolution”] 42 —was itself actually written in coalition with some of these organizations, as well as elders and youth who are not affiliated with organizations at all. I'd say that there's a very broad perspective...
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The Urbanization of Labor: LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY

Andy Merrifield
Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-31
Published: 01 March 2000
... line and has become very adept at enhancing its “good business climate” reputation. Creating and re-creating healthy business climates has apparently been vital not only for the growth and continued financial viability of cities but also for the survival...
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Radical Care: Survival Strategies for Uncertain Times

Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Tamara Kneese
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971067
Published: 01 March 2020
... of care and who is not. With care reentering the zeitgeist as a reaction to today’s political climate, radical care engages histories of grassroots community action and negotiates neoliberal models for self-care. Studies of care thereby prompt us to consider how and when care becomes visible, valued...
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Introduction: Dehumanist Education and the Colonial University

Nathan Snaza, Julietta Singh
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750064
Published: 01 March 2021
...: The University and Student Protests . Berkeley, CA : University of California Press , 2017 . Gilbert Jen . Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . Grande Sandy . “ Refusing the University .” In Toward What Justice? Describing...
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Introduction

Malini Johar Schueller, Ashley Dawson
Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-014
Published: 01 March 2007
... to their with- ering perquisites, and a ballooning population of peripheral employees. The contingent status of the latter not only eats away at the life chances of adjunct faculty, but also fosters a climate of anxiety that helps tame dis- sent even among those who are tenured and supposedly “secure.” When...
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Why Democracy Will Be Hard to Do

Ellen Messer-Davidow
Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 1–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-1_86-1
Published: 01 March 2006
... universities and community colleges, and their drop- out rates rose, a phenomenon that scholarly studies attribute to insufficient financial aid and chilly campus climates.6 In July 2003 the Supreme Court resolved the conflict over Justice Powell’s diversity rationale when it issued long...
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2020: Momenta Vita

Jayna Brown, Neferti X. M. Tadiar
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408042
Published: 01 December 2021
... to carceral formations of all kinds, the relentless persecutions and killings and the impunity that make them possible; they call for justice not just repair; they speak of abolition, the return of stolen lands, food and health care for all; they build forms of mutual aid and creative kinship, claim new...
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Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial/Racial-Colonial Power, Genocide Poetics, and the Logic of Evisceration

Dylan Rodríguez
Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3125689
Published: 01 September 2015
.... . . . This cruel and degrading treatment of Chicago’s youth of color serves to silence, traumatize, and control entire communities. It cre- ates a climate where youth of color feel unsafe and learn that they always are suspects and that their lives...
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