Planetary Justice: Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance and Solidarity

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth Unbound Collective share stories from India, Australia, Canada and Scotland. Chapters draw on Indigenous, Black, Southern, ecosocialist and ecofeminist perspectives to call for more radical and interconnected ideas of justice and solidarity.

This accessible book features diverse voices that speak with the planet in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. It explores the politics and practices of working towards a future where the planet thrives.

Michele Lobo is an Australian geographer of Indian heritage who explores race, encounter and planetary futures. She is Honorary Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University. Eve Mayes is Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her work is situated at the intersection of the sociology of education and social movement studies. Laura Bedford is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her research interests include political ecology, green criminology, state-corporate crime, activism and resistance, and policing.