Climate Change: Decolonial, Indigenous, and Green Theories

In this episode, we look at how different IR lenses are used to unpack climate change and environmental degradation. Conventional theories such as realism and liberalism see climate change as a problem of power--especially because of its potential to incite conflict over resources. However, critical IR theories highlight different considerations and consequences of climate change that are important to discuss. Links to resources on critical theories and climate change are listed below!

Decolonial:
Karrieann Soto Vega, “Colonial Causes and Consequences: Climate Cange and Climate Chaos in Puerto Rico.” Enculturation. http://enculturation.net/colonial_causes_consequences
Sharon Stein, “The Ethical and Ecological Limits of Sustainability: A Decolonial Approach to Climate Change in Higher Education,” Australian Journal of Environmental Education 35, no. 3 (2019): 198–212. doi:10.1017/aee.2019.17.
Aurore Chaillou, Louise Roblin, and Malcolm Ferdinand, “Why We Need a Decolonial Ecology.” Green European Journal, 2020, https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-we-need-a-decolonial-ecology/.

Indigenous:
A bibliography of Indigenous perspectives on climate change: https://mypages.unh.edu/ne-arctic-convergence/academic-scholarship.
International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change: http://www.iipfcc.org/key-issues.

Green:
Peter Newell, “Global Green Politics,” https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767224.
Tuvalu: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/16/one-day-disappear-tuvalu-sinking-islands-rising-seas-climate-change#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTuvalu%20is%20sinking%E2%80%9D%20is%20the,midway%20between%20Hawaii%20and%20Australia.

Other Resources:
Introduction to IR Theories: https://www.e-ir.info/2017/01/09/international-relations-theory/.
Wa’ed Alshoubaki and Michael Harris, “The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Jordan: A Framework for Analysis,” https://www.jois.eu/files/11_454_Alshoubaki%20et%20al.pdf.

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