PrintRequired Reading:
Sultana, F. (2022). The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality. Political Geography, 99, 102638.
This paper highlights how the climate crisis disproportionately impacts marginalized populations and that these impacts are rooted in the legacies of colonialism and imperialism, which continue to shape global structures and vulnerabilities. Sultana Sultana used the concept of "climate coloniality" to describe how the colonial structures and logics of capitalism and neoliberalism continue to shape the climate crisis and its impacts.
"The coloniality of climate seeps through everyday life across space and time, weighing down and curtailing opportunities and possibilities through global racial capitalism, colonial dispossessions, and climate debts."
NOTE: Links to the readings are located in the Week 12 module in Canvas.