Notes toward an anticolonial environmental sociology of race

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ID8104077
AuthorsMichael Warren Murphy (0000-0002-1118-1623, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume7
Issue2
Pages122-133
Publication date2020-12-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2325-1042 • E-ISSN: 2325-1042
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23251042.2020.1862979
OpenAlexW3117100152
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited32

This essay contributes to an ever-growing chorus of scholars calling for renewed attention to the dynamics of race and environment by introducing the need for and basic features of an anticolonial environmental sociology. I argue that when it comes to matters of race, environmental sociologists often inherit ontological assumptions that obfuscate the entanglement of racialization and colonial domination, thereby limiting the preoccupations of the field. In contrast, in this essay, I gesture toward an anticolonial environmental sociology that situates considerations of race and environment within the broader context of European conquest, whereby the socioecological significance of whiteness is better apprehended by engaging with the experiences and perspectives of Black and Indigenous people in the North American context

Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Environmental sociology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Indigenous · Race (biology · Racialization · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gender Studies · History

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