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Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the
European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection
considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for
environment and society in the region. Inspired by key thinkers in
justice, this book highlights the real and practical consequences
of postcolonial legacies, climate change and the regions’
incorporation into the international political economy. The
chapters feature liberal, cosmopolitan, feminist, as well as
critical justice perspectives from experts with decades of research
experience in the Arctic. Moving from a critique of current
failures, the collection champions a just and sustainable future
for Arctic development and governance.
This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not
the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic
freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of
capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to
change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how
this state of affairs might be reversed and the societal relevance
of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from
want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be
better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization of
procedures of natural resource management and problem resolution
amongst self-determining communities. It looks at how increasing
human vulnerability to climate destruction forms the basis of a new
peoples-powered demand for greater climate justice, as well as a
global movement for preventative action and reflexive societal
learning.
Synonymous with catastrophe and destructive tendencies, the
Anthropocene provokes reflection on the limits of existing
applications of ideas of responsibility, ecological agency and
democratic justice. Youth campaigners, in particular, make emerging
insights on the Anthropocene of central importance to an
intersubjectively generated redefinition of the just society of the
future. Given their span of affectedness, escalating rates of
greenhouse gas emissions shape the ecological circumstances of
generations to come and implicate them in harm relations they had
no hand in creating. The realization is that human-inspired
climate-destructive practices reverberate across plural time
frames, thereby raising serious questions about the value of
conventional interpretations of the copresence of sources of
climate harm and their effects on the health and environmental
living standards of all peoples. If injuries provoked by
environmental degradation emerge across multiple time frames and
affect generations differentially, where do we draw the boundaries
of the just society, and how do we identify its most relevant
subjects? This book explores how such questions have ignited one of
the most important debates on democratic justice in recent years
– that between generations. For mobilized youth and future
justice coalitions campaigning internationally, expanding resource
inequalities (regionally and intergenerationally) are fundamentally
issues of unfair exclusions and asymmetries in relations of power
between generations. The book offers a comprehensive overview of
new insights being generated through such debate on the limitations
of democratic presentism, as well as current institutional
applications of civil and human rights norms. It assesses overall
how the metapolitical relevance of modernity’s democratic project
is being creatively redefined in terms more relevant to
Anthropocene futures.
Synonymous with catastrophe and destructive tendencies, the
Anthropocene provokes reflection on the limits of existing
applications of ideas of responsibility, ecological agency and
democratic justice. Youth campaigners, in particular, make emerging
insights on the Anthropocene of central importance to an
intersubjectively generated redefinition of the just society of the
future. Given their span of affectedness, escalating rates of
greenhouse gas emissions shape the ecological circumstances of
generations to come and implicate them in harm relations they had
no hand in creating. The realization is that human-inspired
climate-destructive practices reverberate across plural time
frames, thereby raising serious questions about the value of
conventional interpretations of the copresence of sources of
climate harm and their effects on the health and environmental
living standards of all peoples. If injuries provoked by
environmental degradation emerge across multiple time frames and
affect generations differentially, where do we draw the boundaries
of the just society, and how do we identify its most relevant
subjects? This book explores how such questions have ignited one of
the most important debates on democratic justice in recent years -
that between generations. For mobilized youth and future justice
coalitions campaigning internationally, expanding resource
inequalities (regionally and intergenerationally) are fundamentally
issues of unfair exclusions and asymmetries in relations of power
between generations. The book offers a comprehensive overview of
new insights being generated through such debate on the limitations
of democratic presentism, as well as current institutional
applications of civil and human rights norms. It assesses overall
how the metapolitical relevance of modernity's democratic project
is being creatively redefined in terms more relevant to
Anthropocene futures.
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