Book Launch: Stacy Banwell unveils An Intersectional Analysis of Climate Change and Atrocity Crimes

On 18th June 2026, Multispecies Collective member Stacy Banwell will launch her new book, An Intersectional Analysis of Climate Change and Atrocity Crimes: Life on Earth is in Crisis, a major interdisciplinary intervention into how we understand the climate emergency and its uneven, devastating impacts. The book, now available for purchase, will be celebrated and discussed at a public launch event that forms part of a two-book programme alongside Dr Alexandra Fanghanel's book Rough Sex Sexual Practice and the Limits of Consent. The event brings into conversation two urgent contributions that rethink harm and justice - from intimate settings to planetary systems.

Banwell’s book examines the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and atrocity crimes, asks what role gender,

race and species play in experiences of and responses to the climate emergency. It advocates a transformative shift from anthropocentrism towards multi-species justice to avert the consequences of this existential crisis.

In this book, Banwell demonstrates how existing narratives surrounding the climate crisis are: (1) gender-blinkered - climate change action plans ignore the experiences of men and boys (2) racist - black lives affected by dangerous levels of warming do not appear to matter as much as the lives of the wealthy situated in the Global North and (3) anthropocentric - they prioritize the fundamental rights of humans, rather than all living entities, to exist and live in a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Providing two novel revisions to the current definition of ecocide, and tracing one of the main causes of climate change to industrialized animal agriculture, Banwell considers how we can reduce our greenhouse emissions which will benefit both the human and the more-than-human world.

Advancing a series of radical alternatives to the current capitalist model, the most transformative of which requires shifting from economic globalization to global economic justice through the payment of the ecological/climate debt, this book provides readers with a blueprint for achieving multi-species climate justice.

The book has already received high praise from leading scholars. Professor Maneesha Deckha (University of Victoria) describes it as "a truly inclusive vision of climate justice", while Professor Gayle Letherby (University of Plymouth) highlights its "comprehensive, compelling and convincing" analysis. Professor Angus Nurse (Anglia Ruskin University) calls it "an important step forward in ecocide and atrocity crime discourse".

The launch event will take place on Thursday 18 June 2026, and is open to attendees both in person and online. To join the event and hear from both authors as they discuss the intersections of consent, harm, climate change, and justice, reserve your place here.