Much recent work on climate justice and activism focuses on the broader socio‐political economic contexts in which contestation occurs. These contestatory spaces in neoliberalised economies are frequently depoliticised through a variety of processes, strategies, practices, and actors. Recently this has been framed as the post‐political – whereby dissent is legitimised as “democratic” only when it does not challenge the status quo of business‐as‐usual. Most of the analysis and commentary on the post‐political has focused on policy or democratic decision‐making processes and conflict at relatively broad scales, rather than nuanced empirical case studies. In this paper we draw on an empirical case study to explore how processes of delegitimisation affect climate justice activists in emotional and personal ways. We argue that while the political subjectivities of climate justice activists are fragile achievements, a key aspect that sustains them is an ethic of care for humans and non‐humans, both near and more distant, who are affected by climate change. Fostering this ethic of care is one key way for climate activists to continue enacting responsibility for climate justice in a way that contests depoliticising and delegitimisation processes.

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建立和取消政治主观：气候正义，行动主义和关怀

关于气候公正和行动主义的最新工作集中在发生竞争的更广泛的社会政治经济背景下。新自由主义经济体中的这些竞争空间经常通过各种过程，策略，实践和参与者来去政治化。最近，这已被定义为后政治时代，据此，只有在异议不挑战通常的现状时，异议才被合法化为“民主”。关于后政治的大多数分析和评论都集中在相对广泛的政策或民主决策过程和冲突上，而不是细致的经验案例研究。在本文中，我们以经验案例研究为基础，探索去合法化过程如何以情感和个人方式影响气候正义主义者。我们认为，尽管气候正义主义者的政治主观性是脆弱的成就，但维持正义的积极性却是照顾受气候变化影响的人类和非人类（无论远近）的伦理。树立这种谨慎的道德操守是气候活动主义者继续以对抗非政治化和非合法化进程的方式继续履行气候正义责任的一种关键方式。