By Farhana Sultana

“What is Climate Coloniality?” is the tenth session in South Feminist Future’s Political Education series. This series is an initiative by South Feminist Futures that seeks to strengthen cross-regional, intergenerational dialogue and build a cross-regional feminist constituency. The series cuts through various topics to interrogate and strengthen understanding of issues shaping conditions in the Global South.

This session took place on the 4th of October, 2023 and was taught by Farhana Sultana. In this video, Farhana unpacks the concept of climate coloniality and discusses its expressions in the global South and its impacts on feminist activism.

Dr. Farhana Sultana is a professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where she has taught since 2008. She is also the Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Maxwell School and a visiting Faculty Fellow at the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) of the Independent University in Bangladesh.

As an internationally-recognized and award-winning interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author, she is broadly interested in nature-society relationships, political ecology, climate justice, water governance, post-colonial development studies, transnational feminist theories, critical urban studies, human rights, citizenship, and decolonizing knowledge among others. Her work is informed not only by her background and training in the natural sciences, social sciences, and policy experience, but also by having lived and worked on three continents, being a post-colonial subject and scholar, and having a lifelong commitment to critical praxis and social justice.