Senses of injustices-in-place

Nature’s voice through Melbourne’s environmental stewards

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12950320
AutoresMelissa Pineda-Pinto (0000-0001-9644-0569, Trinity College Dublin, autor correspondente), Niki Frantzeskaki (0000-0002-6983-448X, Utrecht University), Christopher M Raymond (0000-0002-7165-885X, University of Helsinki)
Ano2023
Volume18
Fascículo5
Páginas2469-2484
Data de publicação2023-06-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSustainability Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1862-4057 • E-ISSN: 1862-4065
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11625-023-01355-8
OpenAlexW4382137153
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas42

Ecological injustices are systemic acts and processes of misrepresentation, misrecognition, maldistribution of impacts, and destruction of fundamental capabilities, to both human and nonhuman living beings. Unpacking these context-specific injustices requires in-depth explorations of people and their experiences, perceptions, types of knowledge, actions, and relations to, for, and with nonhuman beings and their capacities. To explore these injustices-in-place, we used embedded case studies within Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, and examined the data with the self–others–environment sense of place framework to uncover people’s understandings of ecological (in)justices. The findings reveal a sense of disempowerment, conflated by unrecognized environmental work, a disconnect between different groups and levels of society, and the anonymity of the nonhuman others. Through a contested self–others–environment lens, place meanings in the study sites show different ways of valuing nature, which is conveyed in the types of actions, stewardship behaviors, and attachment to place. This analysis introduces a new concept of ‘ecological injustice’ that bridges the sense of place and justice by visibilizing the senses of anonymity, collectivity, reciprocal nurturing, and contestation that unfold across human–nonhuman interactions. We discuss strategies to prevent and restore ecological injustices, which include building capacity through knowledge exchange, improved funding and governance mechanisms, raising social–ecological awareness, and finding ways to populate our cities with environmental stewards that can help to deanonymize and make the needs of the nonhuman others visible

Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stewardship (theology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Urban Green Space and Health