Call for Contributions: Intersectionality and Climate Justice in Eastern Africa

It aims to demonstrate the importance of an intersectional approach in which the climate crisis cannot and should not be seen in isolation from other social, political, and development issues and imperatives.

Themes

Potential themes that chapters could address include:

• Intersections between climate, environmental and social justice;
• Gender justice: gender, sexuality, and climate change;
• Climate knowledge production and access in/from/on Eastern Africa;
• Climate (in)justice in/across different settings (urban, rural);
• Disproportionate climate impacts on marginalised communities (people living with disability, refugees and asylum-seekers, women and girls, older people, Indigenous people and ethnic minorities, etc);
• Displacement and (forced) migration resulting from climate change, environmental shifts, and disasters, and impacts of climate change on forcibly displaced people;
• Inter/Generational (in)justice, intra/cross generational solidarity, age-based experiences of climate change;
• Social movements, resistance, and civil society responses to the climate crisis;
• Theoretical and conceptual interventions on environmental and climate change;
• Local conceptions of resilience and coping strategies to environmental and climate change (shocks, disaster, slow onset);
• Indigenous knowledges, knowledge production, and decolonising climate justice in Eastern Africa;
• Climate policy development and implementation within and across scales (regional, national, local);
• Access to climate finance, including capacity to develop bankable projects, distribution of finance and debt (loans and grants);
• Loss and damage, climate negotiations, and climate reparations.

Criteria

• For the purposes of the book, Eastern Africa is understood broadly and submissions focused on any part of the region are welcome.
• They particularly welcome submissions focused on countries less represented during the workshop, including (but not limited to) Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

Details of Submissions

• Book chapters should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words, inclusive of references. They also warmly welcome shorter creative entries and provocations, including creative writing and visual storytelling, and activist interventions that speak to the core themes of the book: intersectionality and climate justice. If you would like to discuss any creative submissions in advance, please contact them by email, they would love to hear your ideas.
• Submissions are open to researchers, academics, policy-makers, graduate students, activists, and civil society practitioners. Applicants based in Eastern Africa are especially encouraged to apply. The editorial team will work closely with selected authors to support their work to publication. All submissions should be original and not previously published.

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