Emotional healing as part of environmental and climate justice processes: Frameworks and community-based experiences in times of environmental suffering

We explore the role of emotional healing in struggles for environmental and climate justice. Drawing on emotional political ecology, transformative justice, and communitarian feminism, together with experiences developed by grassroots collectives in Mexico, Colombia, and Spain, we show how healing processes strengthen collective action in the face of violence, dispossession, and environmental suffering. We propose understanding environmental and climate justice as a multidimensional, collective, and non-linear process that incorporates the emotional dimensions of environmental conflict.