Feminist perspectives on environmental justice and health in Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13077072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neena Albarus (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), J’Anna-Mare Lue, J'Anna-Mare Lue (0000-0002-3686-8763, University of California, Berkeley), Erin M Kerrison (0000-0003-1300-3983, University of California, Berkeley), Maya Carrasquillo (0000-0002-6924-1596, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 1347649-1347649 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2297-7775 • E-ISSN: 2297-7775 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1347649 |
| PMID | 38912310 |
| OpenAlex | W4399544161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Jamaica is an island nation with a history that is informed by Taino settlement, European colonisation, chattel slavery, disinvestment, and continued extractivism. This perspective paper leverages a historical analysis to explore environmental injustices affecting the health and quality of life of Jamaicans living in Jamaica. This article hopes to contribute to a growing but limited body of scholarly research that contends with environmental and climate justice in the context of the Caribbean. In discussing a lack of critical environmental infrastructure, such as reliable solid waste management, and the impacts of extractive industries, such as bauxite mining, the paper intends to highlight the environmental, public health, and social harms that are produced. Employing an intersectional approach grounded in Black feminist epistemology put forward by Patricia Hill Collins, the authors use their lived experiences as a source of knowledge. The paper analyses how these environmental injustices harm Jamaican communities at large but underscores the compounded challenges faced by Jamaican women who experience marginalisation on the basis of gender, urban/rural residency, and class. The paper concludes by urging researchers, policymakers, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders to conduct further research and create sustainable and equitable environmental standards that have considerations for environmental injustice in Jamaica
Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Harm · Injustice · Political science · Redress · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Persistent poverty
Black Feminist Thought
Social Work Perspectives on Climate Change and Vulnerable Populations in the Caribbean
Environmental injustice
The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism
Race, Class and the Global Politics of Environmental Inequality
Wasting women—the biopolitics of waste and women
The complicated gendering of farming and household food responsibilities in northern Ghana
Tourism and culture
Solid waste collection by the private sector
Residential Proximity to Environmental Hazards and Adverse Health Outcomes
Extraction is not a metaphor
Mapping the Margins
The contours of environmental justice in the Caribbean
Negotiating politics and power
Unearthing the decolonial environmental worldview (DEW)
Doing Justice to Intersectionality in Research
Maroon Ecology
A Political Ecology of Water and Enslavement
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |