Podcast# 14: Climate justice for all:
Intersectionality and climate movements
While climate change impacts everyone, some communities are disproportionally affected over others. Therefore, climate movements have put focus on the concept of ‘intersectionality’ in their fight against climate change. Clear examples of this are the chant of ‘Climate Justice is Racial Justice’ that gained traction during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the explicit connection between climate action and support for Palestine during Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. However, the latter also showed that there can be internal contention in climate movements as some argue to separate broader politics from addressing climate change.
Eugene Nulman and Daniela Chironi share their insights on this topic in this episode to help us understand how climate change and intersectionality are linked, and what it means for climate movements.
About the guests
Eugene Nulman is an Assistant Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy and, from September, will be an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Firenze in Florence, Italy. He researches social movements with a focus on climate activism. He is also a researcher in the area of ideology and popular culture. Nulman is the author of the books Climate Change and Social Movements: Civil Society and the Development of National Climate Change Policy(2015), Coronavirus Capitalism Goes to the Cinema (2021) and How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television (forthcoming). He has published academic work in journals such as Third World Quarterly; Media, Culture and Society; Journal of Youth Studies; and Environmental Politics.
Daniela Chironi is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, in Italy. She obtained her PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. Her research and published articles focus on the connections between social movements and political parties; the electoral consequences of economic inequality; political participation and protest, with specific reference to feminism, environmentalism, and the political participation of young people. She is among the authors of the books Resisting the Backlash: Street Protest in Italy (Routledge, 2022) and Comunicare e partecipare durante una pandemia (Il Mulino, 2024). Her areas of interest are social movements, political parties, comparative politics, inequality, gender and generations.
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About the podcast series
Ever since the von der Leyen Commission launched the European Green Deal, European climate policy went into overdrive, and it seems like every week there is a new initiative.
To help you navigate, understand and unpack these complexities, GreenDeal-NET created a podcast in which researcher Jana Gheuens talks with leading climate experts about their work and insights. Topics range from the objectives of the Green Deal to climate adaptation and environmental movements.