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The climate emergency is not only a crisis of emissions, it’s a crisis of global justice. The inaction of the powerful is facilitated by the answer to “Who is my neighbour?” The traditional answer is family, compatriots, those directly affected by my actions. #GreenCrime2021 1/5
But emissions anywhere contribute to impacts everywhere, and we are flung into unprecedented relationships across place and time. Our legal, moral and political concepts are all struggling to keep up, while mechanisms are failing the most acutely affected. #GreenCrime2021 2/5
Restorative justice is about acknowledging, building and restoring relationships, addressing actual harm and needs of those harmed, insisting on moral responsibility, using participatory processes and prompting structural changes re underlying oppressions. #GreenCrime2021 3/5
Building on Margaret Urban Walker and Ben Almassi's work, my PhD explores how restorative practices could address climate injustice by enacting transformational global relationships, especially re Indigenous Andean communities affected by deglaciation. #GreenCrime2021 4/5
Climate injustice, like climate change itself, is a wicked, multi-layered and desperately urgent problem, needing connections between people & communities but also between disciplines & ideas. A restorative, relational and participatory approach offers this. #GreenCrime2021 5/5
