“The Poor Feel it the Most”: The Antilles Bishops, the Poor, and Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 1155-1172
Author(s):  
Anna Kasafi Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Poor

“Occupying” Our Social Imagination: The Necessity of Utopian Discourses in an Anti-Utopian Age

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 152-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Webb
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political System ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Willful Blindness ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Occupy Movements

AbstractWe are in the depths of multiple catastrophes that Western society is seemingly unwilling and unable to address: growing inequalities between the rich and the poor, a willful blindness to climate change, and a political system mired in uncompromising and ever increasing extremism. However, there are no reality transcending dialogues, no new social imaginaries to drive change—our own dystopic reality has no utopian response. The greatest importance that the Occupy movements may play in spurring social change and revolution is their success at bringing radical discourses into mainstream society. Occupy not only occupied fixed public locations, but also occupied our social imagination.

scholarly journals Dwelling, Dispossession, and “Slow Violence” in the Time of Climate Change The Representation of Refugees in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Pilia
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human History ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
The Sundarbans

In this essay, I will analyse the crucial issues of dwelling and dispossession concerning refugees in the novel The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh. Political and environmental displacement is addressed within the framework of ‘slow violence’ as proposed by the landmark work of Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011). With the intention to define the Morichjhãpi refugees as a foreshadowing of the climate migrations involving the lives of the subalterns in South Asia, as argued by Brandon Jones (2018), the essay provides a historical background of the Morichjhãpi Massacre and studies the forced eviction narrated in the novel through the pages of Nirmal’s diary. Together with Kusum, the Marxist professor experiences the tragedy of the subalterns in the ever-changing ecosystem of the Sundarbans, bridging the gap between environmental and postcolonial categories while providing fruitful insights within the notions of human history and ecological deep time.

Are There Limits to Limits?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Global South ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
The Rich

The idea that there might be “limits to growth” is a key and contested feature of environmental politics. This chapter outlines the limits to growth thesis, describes and assesses critical reactions to it, and comments upon its relevance today. It argues that, after an initial highpoint in the early 1970s, the thesis declined in importance during the 1980s and 1990s under criticism from “ecological modernizers” and from environmental justice advocates in the global South who saw it as way of diverting blame for ecological problems from the rich and powerful to the poor and dispossessed. “Peak oil” and climate change have, though, given renewed impetus to the idea, and this has given rise to new discourses and practices around “sustainable prosperity” and “degrowth.”

Climate Change and Food Security: Health Risks and Vulnerabilities of the Poor in Bangladesh

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Fariba Alamgir ◽  
Papreen Nahar ◽  
Andrew E. Collins ◽  
Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett ◽  
Abbas Bhuiya
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
The Poor

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-183 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Adaptive Trial

David Audretsch of Indiana University reviews “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure” by Tim Harford. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores how we can learn to use adaptive trial and error to solve current complex situations and problems in politics and the social sciences. Discusses conflict, or how organizations learn; creating new ideas that matter, or variation; finding what works for the poor, or selection; climate change, or changing the rules for success; preventing financial meltdowns, or decoupling; the adaptive organization; and adapting and you. Harford is a columnist for the Financial Times. Index.

Drought throws spotlight on Chile’s water stewardship

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Matrix ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The North ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Precious Resource ◽  
Desalination Plants

Significance The poor, and small farmers, are the worst hit. Conflicts over the precious resource are impacting the mining and agricultural sectors. Agriculture represents 72% of water use, followed by drinking water (12%), industry (7%) and mining (4%). Consumption is expected to grow by 4.5% by 2030. Impacts Hydropower represents about 30% of Chile’s energy matrix, but backup from other energy sources should avoid outages. A further 20 desalination plants are in the pipeline, mainly implemented by the mining sector to resolve water scarcity in the north. A bill creating an institutional framework on climate change, sent to Congress in January, is in its first legislative stage in the Senate.

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