Environmental justice movements and political opportunity structures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23606387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D N Pellow (0000-0001-9160-2880, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 37-49 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315678986-4 |
| OpenAlex | W2775943920 |
| ISBN | 9781315678986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
Environmental justice (EJ) movements have led action campaigns for many years around a range of issues, including mining, the hazardous waste trade, air pollution, climate change, hydroelectric power, incineration, pesticides and agrochemical production, forest protection, and the defence of communities on the frontlines of environmental injustice, including Indigenous and First Nations, people of colour, farmworkers, immigrants, women, and gender-oppressed peoples. This chapter articulates the need for greater attention to the role of race and gender in producing and shaping political opportunities vis-à-vis social movements. It demonstrates the need for more emphasis on the role of nonhuman (or more-than-human) forces in contributing to the terrain of political opportunities. The chapter outlines a path for redefining political opportunities beyond the state with respect to EJ movements and EJ studies. The extraordinary damage to ecosystems and human health associated with large-scale mining operations has been documented in the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Arctic.
Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |