Challenging development and politicising climate at multiple scales: the climate justice coalition in Türkiye

• Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach ^[1]
  1. [1] Krakow University, Poland
• Localización: Socioecos 2024. Conference Proceedings June 6-7, 2024: climate change, sustainability and socio-ecological practices / Benjamín Tejerina Montaña (ed. lit.), Cristina Miranda de Almeida De Barros (ed. lit.), Clara Acuña Rodríguez (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 978-84-9082-680-5, págs. 185-193
• Idioma: español
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  • : The urgency of the climate and ecological crises is increasingly being addressed by different actors at different scales. Social movements are among them, highlighting the inadequate steps taken by political and economic leaders worldwide to prevent a catastrophic scenario for humanity and the planet. Many are committed to providing solutions and proposing alternatives (Nulmann, 2022). What kind of social-ecological practices are adopted and promoted by climate movements? What conditions facilitate the emergence of specific types of social-ecological practices and what are their effects? How can activism relate to the political sphere when it challenges political and economic systems? These questions will be addressed by building upon recent insights from social movement studies and political ecology perspectives.

    Climate movements are diverse, as are their responses to the problem of global warming and its causes. Some are reformist and “dutiful”, while others are more revolutionary (O’Brien et al., 2018). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the case of the Climate Justice Coalition, which was formed in Türkiye in 2021 after COP 26 in Glasgow, where people participated in an alternative summit to seek solutions that were missing from world leaders.

    It uses empirical data from field research, including interviews with climate activists in Türkiye and beyond, conducted between 2020 and 2022. The paper addresses the network’s anti-development and anti-extractivist stance, and its multi-scale strategies – building partnerships and solidarity networks at the local level while, at the same time, using the transnational sphere to interact with climate activists from other countries.