"Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California"

How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental org...

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Published in:Capitalism, nature, socialism nature, socialism, 2022-04, Vol.33 (2), p.85-102
Main Authors: Pellow, David N., Williams, Emily, Rizo-Centino, Ana Rosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Climate action
Climate change
Climate justice
climate justice gestalt
Collaboration
College faculty
College students
Colleges & universities
community-based participatory research
Development programs
Development projects
Emissions
Emissions control
energy justice
Environmental justice
Environmental studies
Extraction
Fossil fuels
Greenhouse gases
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Participatory research
Productivity
Research methodology
Research methods
scholar-activism
Social activism
Social justice
Social movement organizations
Social movements
Students
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Summary:How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university faculty and students to conduct research to produce innovative ideas and insights about just transitions in California and to support social movement campaigns aimed at actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions by keeping fossil fuels in the ground. This collaboration was jointly initiated by faculty and students at a California university alongside leaders of local social movement organizations dedicated to climate justice, as a response to several proposed development projects that would expand oil extraction and fossil fuel use in that state. We argue that these efforts produced a climate justice gestalt that serves to amplify our productivity, power, and impact well beyond what any single partner could do separately or individually with respect to addressing climate injustices in our region. This is our plan for addressing climate change from an anti-authoritarian, participatory approach that will speak to new developments in the scholarship on climate and environmental justice studies and collaborative research methods.
ISSN:1045-5752
1548-3290
DOI:10.1080/10455752.2021.2007538