Climate Justice and Sustained Transnational Mobilization

Authors

  • Paul Almeida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.946

Keywords:

Climate Change, Climate Justice, Transnational Social Movements, Threats, Global Warming

Abstract

Samir Amin’s final essay called for the creation of a new international organization of progressive social forces. This essay provides evidence from twenty-first century transnational movements on the likelihood of the emergence of such an international organization and the issues and sectors most likely to facilitate coalitional unity.  More specifically, the ecological crises identified by Amin in the form of global warming and climate change create an unprecedented global environmental threat capable of unifying diverse social strata across the planet.  The climate justice movement has already established a global infrastructure and template to coordinate a new international organization to confront neoliberal forms of globalization.  Pre-existing movement organizing around environmental racism, climate justice in the global South, and recent intersectional mobilizations serve as promising models essential to building an enduring international organization representing subaltern groups.

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Published

2019-09-03

How to Cite

Almeida, P. (2019). Climate Justice and Sustained Transnational Mobilization. Journal of World-Systems Research, 25(2), 365–372. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.946

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Vol. 25 No. 2 (2019): Summer/Fall 2019

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Forum: Samir Amin's Call for New International of Workers and Peoples

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