Confronting Climate Coloniality exposes how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism co-produce and exacerbate the climate crisis, create disproportionate impacts on those who contributed the least to climate change, and influence global and local responses. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through processes of neoliberalism, racial capitalism, development interventions, economic growth models, media, and education.

Confronting climate coloniality entails decolonizing climate discourses and governance, challenging the dominant framings and policies, interrogating material, geopolitical, and institutional arrangements for tackling the climate crisis, and centering Global South and indigenous knowledge, experiences, strategies, and solutions. Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice provides critical insights and strategies for transformative action and fosters deeper understandings of the structural injustices entangled with climate change in governance, framings, policies, responses, and praxis. This collection offers pioneering interdisciplinary research on alternative frameworks for decolonized approaches for more meaningful climate justice.

Speaker (online)

Farhana Sultana is a Full Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, where she is also a Research Director for the Program on Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her research considers how water management and climate change impact society.

Discussants (@KITLV)

Daphina Misiedjan is an assistant professor in human rights and the environment at International Institute of Social Studies (ISS). She specializes in issues concerning human rights and environmental justice, specifically concerning Environmental Justice within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Rights of Nature and Environmental Justice fromm local city and neighborhood perspectives.

Lysanne Charles is an artist, educator and activist whose work has centered on empowerment of marginalized groups across issues using tools in education, the arts and activism. She is also a researcher within the Islander(s) at the Helm project at KITLV. For her research Lysanne utilizes a transdisciplinary approach to analyze and bring together stakeholders from government and the community in order to co-create a viable and sustainable policies and strategies roadmap in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the SSS islands.

Moderator (@KITLV)

Francio Guadeloupe is a senior researcher at KITLV and Professor of the Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations. Guadeloupe’s academic work and posts span both sides of the trans-Atlantic Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Reading suggestions

Sultana, Farhana, 'The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality', Political Geography 99: 102638, 2022.
Sultana, Farhana, 'Decolonizing development education and the pursuit of social justice', Human Geography 12-3: 31-46, 2019.

Format, date, time & venue

This seminar is a hybrid event and will be held in the conference room of KITLV, Herta Mohr building, room 1.30, Witte Singel 27 A, Leiden and online via Zoom, on Friday 28 February from 15.00 – 16.30 PM (Dutch time) | 10.00 – 11.30 AM (Caribbean time)

Registration

Registration to join the seminar in person

Registration to join the seminar online

Organizer

This seminar is organized by the Island(er)s at the Helm project.

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Book cover Confronting Climate Coloniality.