Climate JusticeBooks

Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs learns Black feminist survival from marine mammals, linking breath, sound, collective protection, and ecological crisis.

This climate anthology gathers women scientists, policy leaders, poets, and organizers, treating climate action as leadership, grief, and collective imagination.

Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.

Through treaties, dispossession, food and water, sacred sites, and Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker rebuilds environmental justice around Indigenous sovereignty.

Critiques elite feminism and proposes an anti-capitalist feminist vision, linking women's liberation to economic justice, racial equality, and environmental sustainability.

Kathryn Yusoff critiques Anthropocene narratives that erase slavery, extraction, and racialized geologic violence behind an abstract “humanity.”

Through Ugandan farmers, Mississippi organizers, and Pacific island communities, Mary Robinson reframes climate crisis as a question of gender, poverty, migration, labor, and human rights.

Vandana Shiva extends democracy to land, seeds, water, and community, showing how corporate globalization turns the commons of life into property.

Vandana Shiva connects industrial agriculture, fossil fuel dependence, and climate crisis, centering small farms, seed diversity, and food sovereignty.

Naomi Klein argues that climate crisis is not a single environmental issue but a challenge to market ideology, fossil capital, and extractivism.

Combining Indigenous wisdom with scientific knowledge to explore the relationship between humans and nature, proposing ecofeminist practices based on reciprocity and gratitude.

Vandana Shiva links land, water, forest, seed, and food wars, arguing for an earth-centered political economy.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva place patriarchal capitalism, colonial development, women’s unpaid labor, and ecological destruction in one political economy, proposing a life-centered subsistence perspective.

Almost any Octavia E. Butler novel is feminist required reading: her Afrofuturistic science fiction published between 1976 and 2005 offers visionary explorations of new worlds and eternal ethical dilemmas. We recommend starting with 'Parable of the Sower,' the first novel in Butler's post-apocalyptic Earthseed duology.

This foundational work of ecofeminism reveals how the development paradigm threatens survival itself through violence against nature and women. Through the experiences and perspectives of rural Indian women, Shiva demonstrates how patriarchal development models simultaneously destroy ecosystems and marginalize women, arguing for women's central role as biodiversity custodians in ecological regeneration.