Climate Change and the Postcolonial

Contributing scholars engaging with Southern African contexts challenge hegemonic climate paradigms. They employ pluralistic strategies that respect diverse epistemologies and advance decolonised discourse. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary collection demonstrates how moving beyond dominant frameworks enables more inclusive approaches to environmental governance rooted in local epistemologies. The volume reveals the importance of understanding environmental justice through postcolonial perspectives. Essential reading for researchers, scholars, and students committed to transformative climate governance, this work emphasises the urgent need to honour diverse epistemologies while addressing environmental challenges in ways that resist colonial impositions on climate discourse.

I Introduction: The Postcolonial Legacy of Climate Change. - Postcolonial South Africa s Water and Aridity in the Era of Climate Change. - Undoing the Dualisms: Towards an Ecofeminist Postcolonial Environmental Justice. - Postcolonial and or Decolonial Perceptions in Framing Different Responses to Climate Crisis. - Climate Change Knowledge and Epistemic Injustice in a Postcolonial Context. - Participatory Governance in Botswana s Climate Change Policy: The Case of the Kgotla. - Decolonial Reflexivity and Climate Change Scholarship in Botswana. - Transnational Climate Change Governance and the Postcolonial Appendices: The Case of the IPCC.