Love, Care and Solidarity in Community-Based Activism for Environmental Justice

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 00:00
Location: SJES026 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
Naomi GODDEN, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Cecilia CHITUKULA, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Drawing on our experiences of feminist participatory action research with minoritised communities, we examine struggles for environmental justice activists to assert epistemic sovereignty in the urgency of systemic responses to climate and biodiversity crises. We then discuss feminist, anticolonial and place-based ethics to sustain movements in contexts of political polarisation, fossil fuel capture and pushback against human rights defenders.