The right to stay and the right to move

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Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is professor of postcolonial studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center/City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of numerous books, including People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (2020), Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (2017), and Extinction: A Radical History (2016). A member of the Social Text Collective and the founder of the CUNY Climate Action Lab, he is a long-time climate justice activist.