1st Edition

Intersectionality and Environmental Movements British Activism in Global Context

By Lydia Ayame Hiraide Copyright 2026
214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In view of recent criticisms of the environmentalist movement for centring middle-class whiteness, this book examines the discourses, strategies, and theories of environmentalism in modern Britain through the Black feminist lens of intersectionality. The author proposes a framework of ‘intersectional absences and presences’ to argue that how environmentalists understand—or... Read more

1 Introduction: Taking a Black feminist approach to environmentalism  2 Intersectionality: Claims and contestations  3 Questions for a billion green Black feminisms  4 Environmentalism and intersectionality: Histories and
trajectories  5 Intersectional absences and presences in environmentalism  6 ‘Until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable’

Biography

Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a Lecturer at Soka University in the Graduate School of International Peace Studies (SIPS). Previously, Lydia Ayame was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She also holds an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent and a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from SOAS. Her research interests include social movements, climate change and ecology, social inequities, migration, and reproductive politics.