Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa,

Year

2024

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-52922-897-7

Link

Last Update

03-Sep-2024

Keywords

Law ; sustainability-discipline ; Environmental Studies

Description

What is an explanation? What does it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve, and by what means is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of public crises of confidence in expertise and political representation; they echo also within the knowledge practices of disciplines such as anthropology. In a world in which one global political, economic, or indeed epidemiological earthquake after another defies expert predictions of its impossibility, and post hoc accounts can often feel more like rationalizations or special pleading than explanations, competing voices vie for public presence and seek to silence...