Exorbitant Responsibility: Geographies of Climate Justice

Clark, Nigel and Gunaratnam, Yasmin. 2019. Exorbitant Responsibility: Geographies of Climate Justice. In: Kum-Kum Bhavnani; John Foran; Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi, eds. Climate Futures: Reimagining Global Climate Justice. London: Zed Books. ISBN 9781786997821 [Book Section]

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Abstract or Description

Exorbitant responsibility is endlessly demanding. It calls for constant attentiveness to the appeals of others and to the inevitable inadequacies of all acts of assistance. It requires calculations of which biologist-turned-climate change commentator Tim Flannery has observed: `(n)ever in the history of humanity has there been a cost-benefit analysis that demands greater scrutiny’ (2005: 170). It takes off from a sense of unrepayable indebtedness that stretches back through an untraceable lineage of bodies into turbulent earth history.

Item Type:

Book Section

Keywords:

Climate, Geogrphies, Body

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
2018Submitted
15 October 2019Published

Item ID:

23831

Date Deposited:

19 Jul 2018 14:07

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 16:47

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/23831

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