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SUMMARY:Research Seminar in Human Rights Studies: Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbil
 t University)
DESCRIPTION:Contact: eric.brandstedt@mrs.lu.se\n\n“Funding Justice: a hum
 an rights approach to climate justice”Brooke Ackerly and Mujibul Anam\,&
 nbsp\;&nbsp\;AbstractPhilanthropy is under scrutiny for being unable to ad
 dress injustice and for being implicated in its perpetuation. Even when ph
 ilanthropists intend to support social justice movements such as women’s
  movements\, structural conditions and their own funding practices can und
 ermine them. We develop a new critical theory of philanthropy that identif
 ies five ways that philanthropy is implicated in social\, political\, and 
 economic hierarchies – even those it may intend to address – and outli
 ne five practices that can and have enabled philanthropy and foreign aid t
 o mitigate these concerns because they function in explicitly political wa
 ys to resist these practices and support social movements and political ad
 vocacy in a rights-based way. We apply these findings to the problem of cl
 imate justice in a location often characterized by academics and policy ma
 kers as one the most vulnerable to climate change. Based on over a decade 
 of research we demonstrate the nature of the injustice of their climate vu
 lnerability and the role of their concept of human rights in their underst
 anding of the injustice they face. Using the critical theory of philanthro
 py\, we offer politically attentive implications for philanthropy (wealth 
 and foreign aid) to address both structural injustice and its consequences
  as they are revealed in the lived experience of villagers in southwestern
  Bangladesh who live at the frontline – the coastline – of climate cha
 nge. Funding climate justice requires a critical approach to philanthropy 
 and foreign aid.\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.humanrig
 hts.lu.se/calendar/research-seminar-human-rights-studies-brooke-ackerly-va
 nderbilt-university
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