Critical Climate Justice

Farhana Sultana - Critical Climate Justice
Dr. Farhana Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans the topics of nature-society relationships, political ecology, water governance, climate change, post-colonial development, sustainability, social and environmental justice, transnational feminism, citizenship, human rights, and decolonizing academia. Farhana Sultana received her B.A. (Honors) in Geosciences and Environmental Studies from Princeton University, graduating Cum Laude. She obtained her M.A. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, where she enhanced her interdisciplinary training and was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Between 1998-2001, Farhana was a Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) responsible for managing a $26M environmental management program in Bangladesh. Through this experience, she worked with a wide variety of international organizations, government agencies, and NGOs, and obtained a keener understanding of environment-development issues in theory and practice. Farhana returned to complete her Ph.D. program in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota, where she was both a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and an International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Fellow. Farhana was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester during 2005-2006. From 2006-2008, Farhana was a faculty member in the Geography Department at King's College London. She relocated to the US in 2008 where she has been a faculty member in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
www.farhanasultana.com

[@saraf5414]

Deeply admire Prof Sultana's work!

[@spillarge]

Have some respect for yourself, dont allow yourself to get drawn into garbage like this, its complete codswallop.

[@davidabudho5032]

Awesome! Quite insightful.

[@Martin.Wilson]

As a retired meteorologist, I can assure you that this is the most thinly rationalized crock of crap I`ve ever heard. She`s weaving every known woke concept into one unrecognizable tapestry that most meteorologists would laugh at. This might have made an amusing topic for an obscure PhD thesis, but this nonsense has no right passing itself off as science. Just more academic double-talk.

[@TheOrdener]

Wow. This is pure evil.

[@trevorlies1774]

Care to articulate a specific, clear, well-meaning critique, Mike?

[@TheOrdener]

@@trevorlies1774 That’s a reasonable request. My short critique is this. She seems obsessed with power (over other people), and yet completely ignores the production of power (energy). A billion people in the world have little to no access to electricity, living god-awful lives. Billions more have access, but not reliable energy. Feminist epistemology and critical theory won’t help them build a coal, hydro, or nuclear plant. But her focus and positions will certainly prevent them from doing so. Her focus on power and equity muscles out discussion of how impoverished people can create wealth and flourish. That she calls that a moral position, a position keeping billions impoverished and commanding the lives of even more to her political will, is what prompted my comment. I get that you probably won’t agree with my assessment. Not looking to argue. Just stating my criticism (as asked).

[@Martin.Wilson]

@@TheOrdener Bravo. Perfect illumination of this biased and elitist patchwork quilt of woke ideologies.