The right to think critically about ecological systems and claim knowledge authority in climate decisions, grounded in Sor Juana's defense of intellectual autonomy.
Sor Juana's fierce assertion of the right to intellectual inquiry becomes a framework for environmental justice. Just as she demanded recognition of women's capacity for knowledge, climate justice requires recognizing communities' rights to understand, interpret, and decide about their own ecosystems. Intellectual sovereignty means resisting corporate or state monopolies on climate science, amplifying indigenous environmental knowledge systems, and ensuring marginalized communities participate in decisions affecting their lands. This concept challenges the notion that climate solutions should be dictated by distant experts, instead affirming that those most impacted by environmental degradation possess legitimate wisdom worth centering. Sor Juana's life exemplifies how the fight for knowledge rights and the fight for justice are inseparable—applied to climate, this means decolonizing environmental discourse and recognizing all peoples as rightful interpreters of their worlds.
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