Abstract

FELTRIN, Lorenzo  and  LEONARDI, Emanuele. Labour Environmentalism and climate justice: convergence for an aecological transition from below. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2023, n.79, pp.53-65.  Epub Dec 31, 2023. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2023.79a05.

This essay assesses the historical unfolding of the labour-environment nexus to argue that a particular form of it - the ecological transition from above - has been hegemonic in the last decades but is undergoing a deep crisis. In this context, a new process of strategic converging between working-class environmentalism and climate justice movements is being deployed within a new horizon, that of an ecological transition from below. Firstly, we discuss what such process implies for theoretical reflections about class composition and ecological activism. Subsequently, we delve into the case study of ex-GKN Factory and its Workers’ Collective, which has been prominent to elaborate and practice strategic convergence.

Keywords : class composition; climate justice; noxious deindustrialization; working-class environmentalism.

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