Edited volume on environmental justice to be published with Palgrave MacMillan

At the RGS-IBG 2025 Annual Conference in Birmingham, the PLURALIZE team (in collaboration with Professor Vanesa Castan Broto) arranged a series of panels on environmental justice. These panels explored theorizations of environmental justice beyond the ‘three-pillar paradigm’, including by engaging with non-Anglophone philosophy and political theory, decolonial critiques, and accounts situated in feminist perspectives. The three panels took place back-to-back on August 27, featuring presentations from participants in Birmingham, as well as online interventions.

Following the discussions at the conference, this conversation is going to be published (with co-editor Tanzil Shafique) as an edited volume with the Palgrave Macmillan Just Transition Series. The volume will engage with the latest thinking in environmental justice, aiming to reimagine this field in the context of the 21st Century.  The objective is to produce the first edited volume on the topic of environmental justice that explicitly theorizes environmental justice beyond the three-pillar paradigm. The book seeks to pluralize conceptions of environmental justice, while bringing together debates in decolonial scholarship, feminism and subaltern knowledges, and everyday activism. While the book navigates a complex topic, it will be compiled into a succinct and accessible format, enabled by short and easy-to-read chapters.