Climate Coloniality Flashcards
(42 cards)
Climate Colonialism
The re-embodiment of how, why, and whos is at fault, the climate being colonized and forced to alter, rebelling and resisting the assault upon it.
Problem with current framing of CC:
It does not avoid death of millions because they do not matter.
Climate solutions perpetuating colonialism:
Land grabs, extraction, displacement, and disposession
Example of covert Fossil Fuel manipulation:
Largest delegation during COP26, through denial, delay deflections and dispossessions
Important issues not addressed at COP26:
Hyper-consumptions, fossil fuel dependency, growth models…
What should COP be?
Opportunities to challenge the system, to utter necessary words for people to hear, to collectivise young/old activists, different posistions, create new openings, possibilities of alliances.
Subaltern
Colonial populations socially, poltically, and geographically excluded from hierarchy of power of imperial colonies.
What is Colonization?
A process of being made to feel less than, told what the truths are, valued differently over time an place, dehumanized through epidermalization of inferiority and created as radicalised other.
How structural racism operates:
Unequal ways through colonial and imperial violence by material and epistemology.
How does CC interact with Colonialism?
Reproduces hauntings of colonialism/imperialism, through climate impacts in the post-colony, laying bare past and ongoing coloniality, governing/structuring our lives, co-constitutive of processes of colonialism, imperialism, and international development.
The Ennui of Coloniality:
Being and not being, belonging and not belonging, capaciousness, giving in and resisting
Climate colonial processes:
Pollution, toxic waste, mining, disasters, desertification, deforestation, land erosion…
Role of Extractivism if Climate Coloniality:
Propagated by global capital and state-sanctioned interventions, creates geopolitical climate necropolitics.
Why is Anthropocene Problematic:
Undifferentiated human impact on the planet, negates CBDR
Legacy of Colonialism?
Ecological unequal exchange, domination of developing world through development policies, financial control from imperial powers and instituitions, climate solutions creating sacrifice zones and resource extraction, internaional climate negotionas/targets controlling development in impoverished countries.
Hegemony fossil fuel capitalism?
Development ideologies, westernization, desire for hyper-consumption
Problem with market-based technocratic interventions and green capitalism:
Unequal negotiating power in trade treaties, bilaterla and multilateral agreements, development interventions, climate finance etc.
How does Carbon Colonialism play out?
Greenwashing by expansion of rare earth mineral grabs, deep ocean floor mining, enclosures of commons, local communities/ecosystem destruction for singular gains.
Exampel of a consequence of necropolitics:
State-sanctioned violence, with climate migration despite internationally limiting immigration policies from other states.
Climate apartheid:
Socio-spatial differentiation of who pays disproportiante price of climate breakdown, is made expendable, and who is spared for now.
Who experiences climate apartheid?
Those at an intersectionality of race, gender, and class exposed to ecological harms/toxic environments.
Important way to differentiate emissions:
Luxury vs survival emissions
Consequence of history of climate class struggle:
Developing nations resource exports to developed: incapable of mitigation, lack of clean water/sanitation access, inadequate social safety nets.
How is this climate apartheid reproduced locally?
Intersectionality gendered; capture/colonization womens bodies, subjugation through eurocentric gendered norms, disposability of racialized bodies in sacrifice zones, and controlling women through overpopulation narratives.
