Climate justice without freedom
Assessing legal and political responses to climate change and forced migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2398094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracey Skillington (0000-0002-5501-1642, University College Cork) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 288-307 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431015579967 |
| OpenAlex | W2127681775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 23 |
Storm surges, flooding, heatwaves, and prolonged drought, as ever more regular features of life under deteriorating climate conditions, are unmistakably violent. Their effects on the lives of vulnerable human populations and ecosystems across the world are widely known to be devastating. Yet a legal order that denies the victims of such ecological persecution safe haven, no matter how great its use of force (e.g., detention, arrest, forced return) cannot, by definition, be violent. The power of law, used to protect states' rights to exclude from their jurisdictions growing numbers displaced involuntarily by global climate harms, in being a source of 'legitimate right', is never the same as violence. This article challenges the ongoing validity of this assumption. It points to some of the ways in which legal instruments are used today to deny those displaced by climatic conditions sufficient normative status to guarantee their safety. What is needed instead is a new critical normative understanding of the evolving relationship between climate change, violence, justice, and law, one that re-assesses the democratic justificatory grounds for the current positions of non-responsibility for the climate displaced whilst re-affirming such people's legal and political status as equal co-members of the politically constituted international community of humanity
Climate change · Climate justice · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Human rights · International law · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Environmental law and policy · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Ecology
Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene
Exploring temporal and topical dynamics of research on climate/environment–migration nexus
Educação e ativismo climático
Solidarity Versus Security
Media coverage of climate change induced migration
Natural resource inequities, domination and the rise of youth communicative power
Contesting crisis narratives amidst climatic breakdown
There's so much more to that sinking island!”—Restorying migration from Kiribati and Tuvalu to Aotearoa New Zealand
Children as a new climate precariat
Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination
National Responsibility and Global Justice
Towards a Critical Theory of Transnational Justice
Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke, Peter Laslett
Jus Post Bellum as a Deliberative Process
Distant Suffering
Introducing democracy across borders
Causes and consequences of international migration
Democratising the global order
The UNHCR and World Politics
Redressing Historic Injustice
Two treatises of government
Living without Freedom
Territorial Rights
Enough and as Good Left for Others
The 'external dimension' of EU immigration and asylum policy
In Larger Freedom
Climate for Change, or How to Create a Green Modernity
Emancipatory catastrophism
Legal Violence
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |