S11. E8: Danielle Celermajer: Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future
“When those fires happened, it was about 8 o’clock in the morning. It goes completely black, so the sky is completely black. There's no light. The sound is like being under a train. It's unbelievably loud. And of course, the heat. You are right in the heat of the fire and the smell and the taste. So, every one of his senses was taken from one world. A world where it was light, where he could move around to another world without the meta narrative that human beings have, that we're in an age of climate catastrophe.” – Danielle Celermajer
Danielle Celermajer a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Sydney. She's deputy director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies Justice project. Her research focus is on Multispecies Justice, or how the concepts, practices and institutionalization of justice needs to be transformed to take into account ecological realities and the ethical standing of all earth beings.
Danielle lives on a multi-species community in rural Australia. She lived through Australia’s Black Summer fires in 2019/2020 and wrote a book about them called, Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. It’s a book that should be required reading for the entire world.
Please listen, share and read Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future.
In gratitude,
Elizabeth Novogratz
Read Book: Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future
Read Book: Excerpts from Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future: Grief for a Vanishing Future
Read Article: Leaning How to Face Our Feared Future
Read Article: Who Killed Summertime? How Do We Trace the Complex Roots of Responsibility?
Links to Danielle’s Broader work: Concepts and Practices of Multispecies Justice, SEI Magazine on Multispecies Justice, Animals and Bushfires Project, Multi Species Justice Project
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