Abstract
This article situates Climate Action in the context of the ongoing histories of capitalist resource extraction and their gendered, racialised and environmental violences, and an "abysmal distance" (Latour) between the severity and scale of climate change and the inability or unwillingness of societal actors to take systemic action. We show how social scientific research can be productively inflected by approaches from the energy and environmental humanities, feminist theories of body and affect, new materialism and animal studies and theoretically elaborate three cross-cutting and intersecting analytical foci "transforming infrastructure, cultivating attentiveness, and practicing solidarity" that offer paths to transformation, resistance, and transversal alliances in the climate emergency.