One struggle one fight: intersectional discourses and activisms for climate justice in the Global South

My research aims to bring in evidence on the wideness and diversity of intersectional struggles for climate justice around the globe from subaltern (Spivak, 1988) and decolonial perspectives. This research centres in the often-marginalised voices and stories in climate activist and political spaces, from queer, BIPoC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour), youth collectives from the Global South, which have historically been side-lined and are frequently nowadays tokenised in politics, including the fight for climate justice.

I will review academic, activist and art resources on intersectional climate justice, decolonial and queer ecologies, which will support the later fieldwork in the Global South (TBD). Through fieldwork, I will study discourses and praxes of collective(s) on how they approach climate justice from different contexts and positionalities. Ideally I'll focus on distinct sites in the Global South to allow for a diverse, cosmopolitan, and counter-hegemonic discussion and representation of a concept and practice which has been mostly propagated based on white-dominated, Northern discourses and practices which disregard connections of the climate crisis with (neo)colonialisms.

• Queer studies and practices
• Intersectionality
• Climate Justice
• Feminist Political Ecology
• Transnational Social Movements
• Decolonial Alternatives to Development
• Ethnographic and Participatory approaches