Exploring Planetary Justice: Views from Central America, Mexico & the Caribbean

Описание: Intersecting social and environmental challenges are affecting and endangering the human and non-human realms on earth. This has intensified demands for justice, with some scholars proposing the concept of ‘planetary justice’. However, what exactly planetary justice means and whether this resonates with existing scholarship and practice of justice, especially in the ecosocial sense, is currently underexplored.

This joint initiative between the Earth System Governance project and the Center for Environmental Justice of Colorado State University aims at establishing an international network of researchers who are interested in exploring the place of planetary justice within their thinking and practice on ecosocial justice. For this reason we are conducting a series of webinars across different world regions under the title ‘Exploring Planetary Justice’.

Participants are invited to address three main prompts drawing on their own research and experiences, which we will compare and synthesize at the end of the webinar series. Following a first webinar focusing on South America and a second webinar on views from Western Europe, in this third webinar we focus on Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Prompts:

1. What do you see as the major theoretical and political tendencies within ecosocial justice in your region?
2. What are the forces for or against ecosocial justice in your region, in addition to the global or planetary levels?
3. Has the concept of Planetary Justice or something similar found its way into your region? How? What does Planetary Justice mean to you?