Format/Structure

The format intended is a panel of short presentations and a common discussion. We will invite up to 5 panel participants.

Long Abstract

Extreme weather – from chronic heat and heatwaves to extreme precipitation and flooding – is reshaping urban life, infrastructures, and governance across geographies. Climate change is transforming how cities are built and governed, and how people experience their everyday lives, bodies, and homes. Yet these transformations are deeply unequal: the impacts of heat and (extreme) weather are amplified by legacies of exclusionary urban planning and uneven adaptation responses, reproducing old injustices while generating new forms of vulnerability such as green gentrification, displacement, and energy poverty.

This panel brings into conversation scholarship on climate justice and everyday adaptation to explore how climate impacts are lived, governed, and contested in cities. We aim to examine both the structural conditions that produce uneven vulnerability (e.g., racialized and class-based planning, disinvestment, zoning, regeneration) and the everyday, community-driven practices of adaptation that emerge in response to weather events, as well as to institutional adaptation strategies. We highlight how justice-centered perspectives can identify both immediate needs and the underlying structural drivers of inequity, while also pointing toward transformative possibilities for adaptation.

We welcome contributions addressing:

Legacies of racialized, and exclusionary urban planning

State, private, and institutional responses to urban heat and weather

Everyday, participatory, and community-driven adaptations

Feminist, decolonial, and care-centered perspectives on embodied, domestic, and lived experiences of climate.

Intersections of climate, housing, and precarity

Infrastructural “greenwashing” and displacement under the banner of resilience and adaptation.

How everyday adaptations and community responses can inform transformative adaptation

Critical and creative methodologies for studying climate injustice

Emerging adaptation imaginaries that challenge hierarchies and generate more equitable futures.

By foregrounding the relations between climate impacts, urban injustice, and everyday adaptive practices, this panel seeks to distill justice-centred research priorities, showcase disruptive generative responses from marginalized communities, and propose policy and scholarly takeaways for more equitable climate action.

This Panel has 15 pending paper proposals.
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