Relational Perspectives on Environmental Justice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4887263
AutoresRaul P Lejano (0000-0001-6949-7252, Institute for Learning and Development), Sandra Ajap (0000-0003-2298-6897, New York University), Sandra Ajaps
Año2018
Volumen57
Número4
Páginas316-324
Fecha de publicación2018-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheory Into Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00405841.2018.1518647
OpenAlexW2889934473
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

Spatial injustices, especially the disproportionate exposure of disadvantaged communities to environmental risks, stem from an inability to appreciate the lived experience of risk and, instead, a reliance on technical frameworks for regulating it. We review Noddings’ ideas about the caring attitude, in particular, that of caring for and, to some degree, caring about, and apply this to the issue of knowing about the experience of vulnerability and crafting effective and affective responses to it. We apply this lens to the case study of Southeast Los Angeles, where a profusion of small sources of air toxics creates zones of inordinate risk, and ask: How should the state and community have responded in a more caring way? How could the teachers and schoolchildren, themselves, have been empowered to speak for themselves? We draw lessons from it that speak to how we can begin reforming the regulatory state. ©, Copyright © The College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University

Disadvantaged · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Vulnerability (computing · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology