Lucy Benjamin
Biographic Data
| ID | 277652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Benjamin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Benjamin |
| SIGNATURE | BENJAMIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lewis & Clark College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9696-9817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist refusal from Jacob’s Room to the climate protest: Bonnie Honig, Virginia Woolf and Greta Thunberg
In this paper I interrogate Virginia Woolf’s depiction of grief in Jacob’s Room (1922). Read through Bonnie Honig’s notion of feminist refusal, I unpack the novel’s form, ultimately bringing Woolf’s revisionist history and critical elegy into the context of the planetary violence contingent to the climate crisis. Concluding with a reflection on the ‘childish’ refusal of figures like Greta Thunberg who infamously told world leaders in 2021 that sh…
ESG Backlash in the United States—Investor Concerns or “Red Scare”
The United States lags far behind its counterparts regarding regulation on ESG investing. Part of this delay stems from a perceived “ESG backlash,” which has contributed to the SEC’s reluctance to require industry to disclose ESG practices. The regulatory landscape has now shifted, with the SEC proposing two ESG-centric rules—the ESG Fund Disclosure Rule and the ESG Names Rule. Both rules have garnered numerous comments from academics, industry, …
Repairability as a Condition of the World: Ernesto Oroza's Archive of Dis/repair
In an age of apparent disrepair as the climate crisis takes hold and neoliberalism fails to liberate, as the cost of living rises and rights are retracted, the need for a reparative turn is overdue. But what is repair? If repair is contained in moments of total breakdown, then the reparative acts of care that sustain the world are denied. Countering these forces and the urgency prescribed by the crisis of disrepair and in what too often appears a…
Climate justice and loss and damage: Hurricane Dorian, Haitians and human rights
Geographical place, socioeconomic status and citizenship matter in the context of climate change. The most vulnerable members of society are frequently the ones hardest hit by climate-induced extreme events. Vulnerable communities often live in climate-exposed locations, and have access to fewer resources to prepare for and respond to disasters. This is the case for Haitian migrants in The Bahamas-vulnerable communities located within a climate-v…
Mapping human rights-based climate litigation in Canada
In line with global trends, there has been an increase in human rights-based climate litigation brought in Canadian courts in recent years. Some litigants invoke human rights as found in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to push federal and provincial governments to take seriously the implementation of their climate obligations. Other litigants invoke procedural environmental human rights to engage in free speech and peaceful protest in…
Ethical Inclinations: Relational Ontologies in Cavarero, Benjamin, and Arendt
In this article I take up the image of inclination developed by Adriana Cavarero in her book, Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude as a mode of developing an account of history informed by an ontology of heterogeneous ethics. Clarifying the potential of inclination contra the Kantian figure of “uprightness,” the principle task of this article is to reimagine the implications of inclination with regard to Walter Benjamin’s theses on history. Ulti…
Climate Change Litigation in the Global South: Filling in Gaps
New scholarship has identified trends, constraints, and opportunities for climate litigation in the Global South. While countries in the Global South tend to experience a lack of capacity within government agencies, civil society, and the judiciary, the Global South is not a homogenous group. Where climate litigation has been identified, the judiciary is often implementing government policy prescriptions in the absence of detailed climate legisla…
Earthly births: The messianism of natality in the climate crisis
The aim of this article is straightforward: to present two clarifications of Hannah- Arendt’s seasoned political concept of natality and to conclude by positioning this new account of natality within the context of the climate crisis. In many ways, this concluding section, where natality is read as a form of historical emancipation, hinges on the degree to which I succeed in reframing existing conversations around natality. In the first instance …
Climate Litigation in the Global South: Constraints and Innovations
Cases involving climate change have been litigated in the courts for some time, but new directions and trends have started to emerge. While the majority of climate litigation has occurred in the United States and other developed countries, cases in the Global South are growing both in terms of quantity and in the quality of their strategies and regulatory outcomes. However, so far climate litigation in the Global South has received scant attentio…
Perceptions of climate change risk in The Bahamas
The Responsibilities of Carbon Major Companies: Are They (and Is the Law) Doing Enough
Transnational carbon major companies are responsible for over 30% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions and exert tremendous influence over future global climate trajectories. Yet, they are not governed through top-down, stringent emissions limits, but are instead regulated largely by disclosure-only domestic requirements and market-based or voluntary corporate social responsibility mechanisms. Through an examination of the requirements o…
Climate Litigation in the Global South: Constraints and Innovations
Cases involving climate change have been litigated in the courts for some time, but new directions and trends have started to emerge. While the majority of climate litigation has occurred in the United States and other developed countries, cases in the Global South are growing both in terms of quantity and in the quality of their strategies and regulatory outcomes. However, so far climate litigation in the Global South has received scant attentio…
Climate justice and loss and damage: Hurricane Dorian, Haitians and human rights
Geographical place, socioeconomic status and citizenship matter in the context of climate change. The most vulnerable members of society are frequently the ones hardest hit by climate-induced extreme events. Vulnerable communities often live in climate-exposed locations, and have access to fewer resources to prepare for and respond to disasters. This is the case for Haitian migrants in The Bahamas-vulnerable communities located within a climate-v…
Perceptions of climate change risk in The Bahamas
Mapping human rights-based climate litigation in Canada
In line with global trends, there has been an increase in human rights-based climate litigation brought in Canadian courts in recent years. Some litigants invoke human rights as found in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to push federal and provincial governments to take seriously the implementation of their climate obligations. Other litigants invoke procedural environmental human rights to engage in free speech and peaceful protest in…
The Responsibilities of Carbon Major Companies: Are They (and Is the Law) Doing Enough
Transnational carbon major companies are responsible for over 30% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions and exert tremendous influence over future global climate trajectories. Yet, they are not governed through top-down, stringent emissions limits, but are instead regulated largely by disclosure-only domestic requirements and market-based or voluntary corporate social responsibility mechanisms. Through an examination of the requirements o…
The Responsibilities of Carbon Major Companies: Are They (and Is the Law) Doing Enough
Transnational carbon major companies are responsible for over 30% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions and exert tremendous influence over future global climate trajectories. Yet, they are not governed through top-down, stringent emissions limits, but are instead regulated largely by disclosure-only domestic requirements and market-based or voluntary corporate social responsibility mechanisms. Through an examination of the requirements o…
Perceptions of climate change risk in The Bahamas
Ethical Inclinations: Relational Ontologies in Cavarero, Benjamin, and Arendt
In this article I take up the image of inclination developed by Adriana Cavarero in her book, Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude as a mode of developing an account of history informed by an ontology of heterogeneous ethics. Clarifying the potential of inclination contra the Kantian figure of “uprightness,” the principle task of this article is to reimagine the implications of inclination with regard to Walter Benjamin’s theses on history. Ulti…
Climate Change Litigation in the Global South: Filling in Gaps
New scholarship has identified trends, constraints, and opportunities for climate litigation in the Global South. While countries in the Global South tend to experience a lack of capacity within government agencies, civil society, and the judiciary, the Global South is not a homogenous group. Where climate litigation has been identified, the judiciary is often implementing government policy prescriptions in the absence of detailed climate legisla…
Earthly births: The messianism of natality in the climate crisis
The aim of this article is straightforward: to present two clarifications of Hannah- Arendt’s seasoned political concept of natality and to conclude by positioning this new account of natality within the context of the climate crisis. In many ways, this concluding section, where natality is read as a form of historical emancipation, hinges on the degree to which I succeed in reframing existing conversations around natality. In the first instance …
Climate Litigation in the Global South: Constraints and Innovations
Cases involving climate change have been litigated in the courts for some time, but new directions and trends have started to emerge. While the majority of climate litigation has occurred in the United States and other developed countries, cases in the Global South are growing both in terms of quantity and in the quality of their strategies and regulatory outcomes. However, so far climate litigation in the Global South has received scant attentio…
Mapping human rights-based climate litigation in Canada
In line with global trends, there has been an increase in human rights-based climate litigation brought in Canadian courts in recent years. Some litigants invoke human rights as found in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to push federal and provincial governments to take seriously the implementation of their climate obligations. Other litigants invoke procedural environmental human rights to engage in free speech and peaceful protest in…
Climate justice and loss and damage: Hurricane Dorian, Haitians and human rights
Geographical place, socioeconomic status and citizenship matter in the context of climate change. The most vulnerable members of society are frequently the ones hardest hit by climate-induced extreme events. Vulnerable communities often live in climate-exposed locations, and have access to fewer resources to prepare for and respond to disasters. This is the case for Haitian migrants in The Bahamas-vulnerable communities located within a climate-v…
ESG Backlash in the United States—Investor Concerns or “Red Scare”
The United States lags far behind its counterparts regarding regulation on ESG investing. Part of this delay stems from a perceived “ESG backlash,” which has contributed to the SEC’s reluctance to require industry to disclose ESG practices. The regulatory landscape has now shifted, with the SEC proposing two ESG-centric rules—the ESG Fund Disclosure Rule and the ESG Names Rule. Both rules have garnered numerous comments from academics, industry, …
Repairability as a Condition of the World: Ernesto Oroza's Archive of Dis/repair
In an age of apparent disrepair as the climate crisis takes hold and neoliberalism fails to liberate, as the cost of living rises and rights are retracted, the need for a reparative turn is overdue. But what is repair? If repair is contained in moments of total breakdown, then the reparative acts of care that sustain the world are denied. Countering these forces and the urgency prescribed by the crisis of disrepair and in what too often appears a…
Feminist refusal from Jacob’s Room to the climate protest: Bonnie Honig, Virginia Woolf and Greta Thunberg
In this paper I interrogate Virginia Woolf’s depiction of grief in Jacob’s Room (1922). Read through Bonnie Honig’s notion of feminist refusal, I unpack the novel’s form, ultimately bringing Woolf’s revisionist history and critical elegy into the context of the planetary violence contingent to the climate crisis. Concluding with a reflection on the ‘childish’ refusal of figures like Greta Thunberg who infamously told world leaders in 2021 that sh…
Political science (7 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental law and policy (4 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works)