Criminalizing Care
Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21192242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Constance Gordon (0000-0002-3453-9827, San Francisco State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 138-145 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-4032 • E-ISSN: 1752-4040 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17524032.2023.2296835 |
| OpenAlex | W4390781566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
This essay discusses the intensification of threats to practices of radical care, such as collective action, mutual aid, and expressions of solidarity with others resisting ecological violence. I take up the global criminalization of land, water, and environmental defenders – including draconian “critical infrastructure” bills and anti-protest activities – that further link anticolonial, anti-imperial, and critical environmental justice struggles across geographies. Considering the rhetorical stakes in defining critical infrastructure, I juxtapose the state’s designation of primarily extractive industries as critical to its national financial and political project with alternative infrastructures of care that emerge from within everyday movement organizing for more life-affirming ecological relationships and worlds. Recent US-based Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City movements, among others, provide illustrative exemplars of this broader pattern of criminalization and solidarity. I conclude by underscoring the importance of strengthening and defending such infrastructures of care in the face of sweeping repression today
Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Environmental justice · Political repression · Political science · Politics · Psychological repression · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
The Promise of Infrastructure
On Environmental Communication as a Care Discipline
Infrastructures of Care
We All We Got
Radical Care
Sweeping the city
Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control
Indigenous environmental perspectives
Land back / cities back
Rethinking care as alternate infrastructure
Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails
Mutual Aid as a Praxis for Critical Environmental Justice
Total Liberation
Environmental conflicts and defenders
Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure
Abolition Infrastructures
Deadly Environmental Governance
Fighting Invasive Infrastructures
People as Infrastructure
Confronting Institutional Violence in the Context of Climate Justice Politics
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |