Racial climates, ecological indifference : an ecointersectional analysis / Nancy Tuana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuana, Nancy, author.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy.

Studies in feminist philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages).

Other Title:

Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]

Summary:

"Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference offers a powerful intervention to the field of climate justice scholarship by addressing a neglected aspect of the field of climate justice, namely systemic racisms. Building on the work of Black feminist theorists, Tuana develops an ecointersectional approach designed to reveal the depth and complexities of racial climates overlooked even in the environmental justice literature. Tuana's conception of ecological indifference underscores the disposition of seeing the environment as a resource for human consumption and enjoyment, a resource that is as usable, fungible, disposable, and without intrinsic worth or standing. The many examples in the book offer new insights demonstrating that systemic racisms emerge out of and give rise to environmental degradation, that is, they are often mutually constitutive. The ecointersectional analyses provided throughout the book reveal that ecological indifference and climate injustice are two sides of the same coin. Tuana identifies three distinctive but interrelated domains in which the intersections between systemic racisms and ecological indifference are manifest: 1. Differential distribution of harms/benefits due to systemic racisms; 2. Racist institutions and practices fueling or causing environmental destruction; 3. The basic social structures that generate environmental destruction being the same ones that generate systemic oppression of certain groups of people. One of the aims of Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference is to underscore that any effort to protect the environment must also be a fight against systemic racisms and other forms of systemic inequity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1: The Interlocking Domains of Racism and Ecological Indifference

Chapter 2: Racial Climates

Chapter 3: Climate Apartheid: The Forgetting of Race

Chapter 4: Through the Eye of a Hurricane

Chapter 5: Weathering the Climate

Conclusion: Cultivating Anthropocenean Sensibilities.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-765664-1

0-19-765662-5

0-19-765663-3