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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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:	Date Event 2018 Submitted 15 October 2019 Published
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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