Introduction

Engaging Social Science Knowledge to Resolve the Climate Crisis

Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra


Part1: Rejecting Our Toxic Cultural Stories

Chapter 1: A Community-University Collaboration for Climate Justice

David N. Pellow

Chapter 2: Towards Earthbound Climate Movements: The Importance of Understanding Ontology and Settler Colonialism in Engaging the Climate Crisis

David Osborn

Chapter 3: Gender and Climate Justice

Christina Ergas


Part2: Recognizing Existing Use of Alternative Stories

Chapter 4: Doing One’s Part of the Job: The Norwegian Dugnad Tradition in a Global Climate Perspective

Anne Kristine Haugestad and Kari Marie Norgaard

Chapter 5: In/Action in Addressing the Climate Crisis: The Possibilities of Generation Z

Hannah Block, Cailin Lorek, and Ryan Alaniz

Chapter 6: Queer Political Culture in the Face of the Climate Crisis

Melanie M. Bowers and Cameron T. Whitley


Part3: Changing the Stories

Chapter 7: Overcoming Hurdles to Climate Mitigation: How Motivational Barriers Impact Strategies for Change

Samantha Noll

Chapter 8: We are the Collective

Kristin Haltinner

Chapter 9: Insights from Social and Behavioral Sciences to Motivate Climate Action

Dilshani Sarathchandra

Chapter 10: ACT Now: Words, Actions, and Values in Tackling the Human Dimensions of the Climate Crisis

Jack DeWaard


Part4: Amplifying Stories on the Margins

Chapter 11: Dismantling the Settler Paradigm in Indigenous Climate Resilience

Aiyana James and Laura Laumatia

Chapter 12: Criminalizing Climate Change: Defining and Responding to Ecocide

Taylor June, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Nicole Fox

Chapter 13: Framing the Climate Crisis: A Sociological Lens through Documentary Film

Cedric A. L. Taylor


Part5: Organizing Through a New Ethic

Chapter 14: From Vulnerability to Co-Production: Centering Indigenous Ecologies in Arctic Climate Adaptation

P. Joshua Griffin

Chapter 15: Closing the Social Gap in the Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies

David Bidwell and Shannon Howley

Chapter 16: Futures Born of the Past and Present: Building Transitions as Collaborative Projects of Justice

Tristan Partridge and Javiera Barandiaran

Chapter 17: Listening and Building Trust: Community-Led Conservation in Lincoln, Montana

Ryanne Pilgeram and Jordan Reeves

Chapter 18: Cattle Grazing and Climate Change Adaptation: Local Environmental Knowledge and Public Lands Management in the US West

Chloe B. Wardropper and Nicolas T. Bergmann

Conclusion

How to Mobilize Public Will to Resolve the Climate Crisis

Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra

Index