Sometimes folks don't want to hear some things in relation to topics like climate change, water, environment, etc. But these are critically necessary to address the very problems:
* decolonize
* imperialism
* coloniality
* nativism
* geopolitics
* patriarchy
* racism
& much more

For e.g., in the field of political ecology, scholars have demonstrated the importance of feminist & decolonial perspectives to advance the field. Here’s something I wrote to the effect. The same argument can be applied to other fields too. https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/Sultana-2021-Political-Ecology-Progress-Report-1-1.pdf

For #SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), that covers a wide array of topics for global intervention, wider concerns of power relations are often under-recognized, as well as some important geographical scholarship is overlooked. Here’s why this matters: https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Sultana-geographical-critique-development-SDGs-2018.pdf

For researchers who work people, it’s important to understand that no encounter is ‘neutral’ or ‘objective’. Not accounting for the role of the researcher in how data is produced, power relations in the field, etc, reflexivity is important to understand: https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Sultana-Reflexivity-international-encyclopedia-geography-2017.pdf

For anyone working in the water sector (whether governance, politics, technology, infrastructure, WASH, etc), here’s a thread with different topics & relevant articles that should be of interest; it’s also relevant for different concepts/ideas/theories that applies more broadly: https://twitter.com/prof_fsultana/status/1374031604054638604

If anyone is struggling what ‘justice’ means beyond the vernacular or what scholars may mean when they write about it, whether in the context of environmental justice or climate justice, here’s an easy overview of an otherwise big concept called ‘justice’: https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/Sultana-Justice-chapter-2015.pdf

For those concerned with decolonization or decolonizing education/academia, so that problematic framings & narratives aren’t repeated in teaching, whereby students then perpetuate them in policy/practice later in careers, here’re some ideas on this: https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Farhana-Sultana-Decolonizing-Development-Education-and-the-Pursuit-of-Social-Justice.pdf

*apologies for typos, was typing quickly and on the go (I hate twitter’s inability to catch errors or having a grammar/typo editing function).

If you care about climate change & the COVID-19 pandemic, which are crises themselves, but together co-produced overlapping injustices this past year, then how these played out spatially & intersectionally are important aspects to understand. Here’s more: https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/Sultana-2021-Climate-change-COVID-19-and-the-co-production-of-injustices-a-feminist-reading-of-overlapping-crises-1.pdf