Gardner, Peter, Adekola, Olalekan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9747-0583, Carvalho, Tiago and O'Brien, Tom (2023) Confronting the Climate Crisis in Africa: The Just Transition Movement and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 50 (177-17). pp. 475-490.

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Abstract

Climate change is increasingly impacting the social, economic and political space across the African continent. The compounding character of such impacts reinforces existing inequalities, raising important considerations around climate justice. Growing awareness has seen the emergence of activists working for solutions and promoting alternative futures, working across scales and sectors to address the complexity of the threats. We examine environmental activism in Nigeria and South Africa, exploring strategies, claims, and how these are rooted in questions of justice. While environmental movements in Nigeria have generally worked to encourage reform and adaption within the existing political economic system, a more systemic critique and need for fundamental change is observable in South Africa. Drawing on a comparison of Extinction Rebellion in both countries, we argue that understandings of just transition should take into consideration unequal abilities for social movements to call for radically transformative and just decarbonisation.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	"This is an accepted version of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Review of African Political Economy on 27/11/2023available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2023.2283988”
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1080/03056244.2023.2283988
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/8696

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