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‘1.5°C to stay alive’: climate change, imperialism and justice for the Caribbean

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  • Leon Sealey-Huggins

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Treating the threat of climate change in the Caribbean as a case study instructive for responses globally, this article examines the social and political relations of climate change. It argues for an analysis taking into account the ways in which the histories of imperialism and colonialism have shaped contemporary global ‘development’ pathways. The article charts how Caribbean vulnerability to temperature rises of more than 1.5°C of warming comprise an existential threat structured by contemporary social relations that are imperialist in character. Hope can be taken from a politics of climate justice which acknowledges the climate debts owed to the region.

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  • Leon Sealey-Huggins, 2017. "‘1.5°C to stay alive’: climate change, imperialism and justice for the Caribbean," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(11), pages 2444-2463, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:38:y:2017:i:11:p:2444-2463
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1368013
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    1. Levi Gahman & Gabrielle Thongs & Adaeze Greenidge, 2021. "Disaster, Debt, and ‘Underdevelopment’: The Cunning of Colonial-Capitalism in the Caribbean," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 64(1), pages 112-118, June.
    2. Omukuti, Jessica, 2020. "Challenging the obsession with local level institutions in country ownership of climate change adaptation," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    3. Elizabeth Stanley, 2021. "Climate Crises and the Creation of ‘Undeserving’ Victims," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-14, April.
    4. Rhys Jones & Alexandra Macmillan & Papaarangi Reid, 2020. "Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Co-Impacts on Indigenous Health: A Scoping Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(23), pages 1-18, December.
    5. Perry, Keston K., 2020. "The New ‘Bond-age’, Climate Crisis and the Case for Climate Reparations: Unpicking Old/New Colonialities of Finance for Development within the SDGs," SocArXiv h9s2z, Center for Open Science.
    6. Adelle Thomas & April Karen Baptiste, 2018. "Knowledge, perceptions, concerns, and behaviors to climate change—the Caribbean context: an introduction," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 8(1), pages 39-41, March.

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