White environmental subjectivity and the politics of belonging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abby Hickcox (Arts & Sciences Honors Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 496-519 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2017.1286370 |
| OpenAlex | W2584630200 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 46 |
In a society dominated by a colorblind approach to racial difference, racial categories are often viewed as unchanging and constructed in a time past. This article examines the making of racial categories and subjectivities in everyday perceptions and portrayals of place and belonging related to environmentalism. It examines the ways in which middle-class white people, who engage regularly with Latino immigrants, simultaneously construct the racial category of 'white' and affirm their own belonging in Boulder, Colorado through an exclusionary discourse of environmentalism. In Boulder, immigrants and non-immigrant Latinos are often portrayed as unaware of environmentalism, not interested in environmentalism, and/or too busy or poor to participate in environmentalism. In interviews, white residents of the city reproduce discourses of privilege and exclusion through environmental discourses and reinforce their own white environmental subjectivity as the norm. The insider/outsider division established through environmental discourse in Boulder is a specific example of how exclusion is enforced through the racialization of 'natural' spaces and environmental activities and how environmentalism itself is an important articulation of difference
Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Environmental politics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Subjectivity · White (mutation · White privilege · American Environmental and Regional History · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law
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Racism out of Place
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Bounding difference
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |