Files in this item
Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname
Item metadata
dc.contributor.author | Collins, Yolanda Ariadne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-03T11:30:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-03T11:30:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-09-02 | |
dc.identifier | 275491459 | |
dc.identifier | b6bfb1c1-f5b2-41d4-baa9-166c62e09d04 | |
dc.identifier | 000691985300001 | |
dc.identifier | 85114498666 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Collins , Y A 2021 , ' Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname ' , Politics , vol. OnlineFirst . https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211042478 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0263-3957 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-4138-9158/work/104252849 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/23894 | |
dc.description.abstract | Research on the overlap between race and vulnerability to the physical and governance-related aspects of climate change is often globally scaled, based on extended temporalities, and colour-coded with non-white populations recognized as being at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate change. This article shows how de-centring whiteness from its position as automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for greater recognition of the role played by the environment in processes of racialization. De-centring whiteness in this way would form a valuable step towards recognizing how race, constructed in part through shifting relations between people and the environment, overlaps with climate vulnerability within multiracial populations. Without discounting the value of global, colour-coded interpretations of race, I point out the limits of their applicability to understandings of how climate change is unfolding Guyana and Suriname, two multiracial Caribbean countries. I argue that in the postcolonial period, relations with the environment take historical constructions of race forward in ways that undergird the impacts of climate change. Even further, I show how the environment has always played a key, underacknowledged role in processes of racialization, complicating colour-coded interpretations of race, whether global or local. | |
dc.format.extent | 15 | |
dc.format.extent | 193723 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Politics | en |
dc.subject | Anthropocene | en |
dc.subject | Climate change | en |
dc.subject | Guyana | en |
dc.subject | Race | en |
dc.subject | Suriname | en |
dc.subject | JZ International relations | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 13 - Climate Action | en |
dc.subject.lcc | JZ | en |
dc.title | Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Global Law and Governance | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of International Relations | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/02633957211042478 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.