Blaming the Victim; The Role of Decision-Makers in the Occurrence of Environmental Injustice

Vos, Jaap; Sapat, Alka; Thai, Khi V.

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“…Beck 2009;Mason 2005;Boström and Garsten 2008;Lidskog, Soneryd, and Uggla 2011). Literature, moreover, identifies the shortcomings of representation in relation to the double loyalties of representatives (Srivastava 2002), the Western preferential right of interpretation (Hannerz 1996), reproduced environmental injustice (Gallardo and Stein 2007;Vos, Sapat, and Thai 2002), legitimacy challenges when specific NGOs claim to represent global civil society (Jordan and van Tuijl 2006;Mateja 2012), and power and self-determination in relation to land use (Schmidt and Peterson 2009).…”

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A sociology of environmental representation

Boström

Uggla

2016

Environmental Sociology

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A sociology of environmental representation.Environmental Sociology, 2(4): [355][356][357][358][359][360][361][362][363][364] http://dx.doi.org/10. 1080/23251042.2016.1213611 Access to the published version may require subscription. N.B. When citing this work, cite the original published paper. The environment cannot plead its own case but must be represented. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the concept of representation and demonstrate its relevance for environmental sociology. Drawing on Pitkin's classic work on representation, we discuss representation as both 'acting for' and 'standing for'. We also make a distinction between actors (representatives) and devices used as representations (e.g. descriptions, graphs and images), while discussing the intertwinement of these two aspects in representative practices. This paper stresses the performativity dimension and social embeddedness of representative practices. It sheds light on different meanings and implications of environmental representation, examining issues of claimmaking and what it means to represent the environment in various instances. Given the complex, durable and transboundary character of many topical environmental problems, the paper argues that it is essential to recognize and understand environmental representation in all its variety. It is moreover argued that a sociological elaboration of the concept of representation provides a basis for understanding the conditions for environmental politics, governance, management and action. Environmental sociology can thus be a crucial platform for intriguing new studies on environmental representation.

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