Show simple item record

Files in this item

Thumbnail

Item metadata

dc.contributor.authorCollins, Yolanda Ariadne
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-03T11:30:10Z
dc.date.available2021-09-03T11:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-02
dc.identifier275491459
dc.identifierb6bfb1c1-f5b2-41d4-baa9-166c62e09d04
dc.identifier000691985300001
dc.identifier85114498666
dc.identifier.citationCollins , Y A 2021 , ' Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname ' , Politics , vol. OnlineFirst . https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211042478en
dc.identifier.issn0263-3957
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4138-9158/work/104252849
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23894
dc.description.abstractResearch 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.extent15
dc.format.extent193723
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPoliticsen
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectGuyanaen
dc.subjectRaceen
dc.subjectSurinameen
dc.subjectJZ International relationsen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccJZen
dc.titleRacing climate change in Guyana and Surinameen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Global Law and Governanceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/02633957211042478
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record