Fossil Fuel Divestment as Method

Mukul Kumar
Urban Planning and Public Policy
UC Irvine

Fossil Fuel Divestment as Method follows land-based struggles against extractive mines, pipelines, and ports across the Asia Pacific and the United States. Drawing on transnational comparisons and connections, the book delineates how fossil fuel divestment movements have deployed three land-based modalities of struggle—blockades, counter-mapping, and litigation—to challenge structures of neoliberalism and state-sanctioned violence. Tracing the intermeshed modalities of divestment campaigns across global fossil fuel and financial supply chains, Fossil Fuel Divestment as Method illustrates how and why movements to divest from fossil fuels must not be severed from land-based struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice.

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