Democratic innovations such as climate assemblies are increasingly implemented to collectively design policy responses to the ecological crisis. Yet Western scholars and actors have largely overlooked the complexities of deliberative and participatory mechanisms in the territories most affected by both climate change and the green transition—and the failures and limits of long-established participatory mechanisms.

Can Western-centered deliberative mechanisms address the need for decarbonization without further entrenching the current global racial order? How can dominant practices respond to the demands of autonomous forms of deliberation and resistance?

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