“Grasping Things at the Root”: Radical Climate Justice and Intersectional Praxis

My doctoral project is based at the Sociology Faculty at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. Through study visits at the Federal University of Pará’s Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos in Brazil, and a summer school co-organised with the Universities of Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa, I expanded my fieldwork questions and collaborators.

Through my research, I investigate with discourses and practices on climate justice and intersectional organising that different collective movements and communities that I am connected with realise. Based in diverse geographies of resistance and scales of activism, including the Brazilian Amazon, eGoli/Johannesburg, Berlin and the international climate conferences (COPs), I asked these movements and communities what does climate justice mean in their territories, taking into consideration their histories of resistance to colonialism and systemic oppressions.

Image credits: Day 10 at COP28 2023 in Dubai, UAE taken by Mídia NINJA.