Environmental Data Justice and the Trump Administration: Reflections from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

Dillon, Lindsey; Walker, Dawn; Shapiro, Nicholas; Underhill, Vivian; Martenyi, Megan; Wylie, Sara; Lave, Rebecca; Murphy, Michelle; Brown, Phil

doi:10.1089/env.2017.0020

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“…This is a public policy problem that requires further attention, particularly considering that informal strategies of information control are far from being a phenomenon confined to Mexico. For example, Donald Trump's war against environmental data (Dillon et. al.…”

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Auditing the State: Everyday Forms of Institutional Resistance in the Mexican Freedom of Information Process

Torres¹

2020

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Governmental transparency through Freedom of Information (FOI) Laws has become a standard in modern liberal democracies. However, a recent trend documented by practitioners and academics alike consists of governments stating in paper their support for transparency, but in practice implementing various kinds of strategies to limit the flow of information towards engaged citizens, increasing secrecy and opaqueness. While scholarly attention has mostly been set on the motivations and effects of secrecy within institutions, the consequences experienced by politically engaged citizens have received less interest. In this paper I focus on how information activists experience and make sense of instances of information control during the performance of the FOI process, through a case study set in Mexico. I suggest that the constant denials, delays and obstructions activists face during the process of requesting information can be productively analyzed through the concept of Everyday Forms of Resistance.

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Auditing the State: Everyday Forms of Institutional Resistance in the Mexican Freedom of Information Process

Torres¹

2020

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“…Examples of this can be seen in anthropological work attempting to relate with violent and messy toxicants: Not only in projects searching to care for and support practices of environmental data justice currently endangered by denialist policy‐making and anti‐evidence movements—such as the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (Dillon et al. )—but also in other initiatives where design enables alternative strategies of commitment and intimate entanglement beyond present‐day “citizen science.” For instance, Shapiro and colleagues’ () adapted artivist toolkits for the embodied, collective, and qualitative appreciation of aerial transformations—how particles and aerial bodies move about, forging toxic bodily connections—but also worked with artists and co‐developed installations and performances to “invite apprehension” of air pollution.…”

Section: Experimenting With Care: a Prolegomenon To Future Workmentioning

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Care in Trouble: Ecologies of Support from Below and Beyond

Duclos

Criado

2019

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Over the last decades, care has proliferated as a notion aimed at capturing a vast array of practices, conditions, and sentiments. In this article, we argue that the analytics of care may benefit from being troubled, as it too often reduces the reproduction of life to matters of palliation and repair, fueling a politics of nationalism and identitarianism. Picking up the threads of insight from STS, “new materialisms,” and postcolonial feminist and indigenous scholarship, we discuss care from “below” and “beyond,” thus exposing tensions between the enveloping and the diverging, the enduring and the engendering, that play out in care practices. We propose “ecologies of support” as an analytic that attends to how humans are grounded in, traversed by, and undermined by more‐than‐human and often opaque, speculative, subterranean elements. Our proposal is for anthropology to not simply map life‐sustaining ecologies, but to experimentally engage with troubling modes of inquiry and intervention.

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“…In doing so, they demonstrated the capacity of fence‐line communities to produce scientific knowledge about air quality and improve environmental decision‐making. Through these and other campaigns, EJ advocates have questioned “what counts as data, what data are collected, and whose interests do they serve?” (Dillon et al., , p. 1; Warren & Dosemagen, ).…”

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“…Reflecting on our early engagements highlighted the limitations of solely rescuing data and have turned our focus to understanding what EJ, critical GIS, critical data studies, and data justice bring to our current projects. We believe understanding environmental dispossession today requires foregrounding concerns about evidence in order to illustrate how environmental data are collected and how they are made accessible or “open,” interpretable and usable (or not) (Dillon et al., ). The EJ literature has not yet taken up questions about environmental data infrastructure and stewardship.…”

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“…In earlier writing we provisionally defined EDJ as involving:

Community‐based environmental data collection, public (especially online) accessibility of environmental data, and environmental data platforms supported by an open source online infrastructure—in particular, one that can be used and modified by local communities. (Dillon et al., , p. 2)…”

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Practicing environmental data justice: From DataRescue to Data Together

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Geography and Environment

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The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) formed in response to the 2016 US elections and the resulting political shifts which created widespread public concern about the future integrity of US environmental agencies and policy. As a distributed, consensus‐based organisation, EDGI has worked to document, contextualise, and analyse changes to environmental data and governance practices in the US. One project EDGI has undertaken is the grassroots archiving of government environmental data sets through our involvement with the DataRescue movement. However, over the past year, our focus has shifted from saving environmental data to a broader project of rethinking the infrastructures required for community stewardship of data: Data Together. Through this project, EDGI seeks to make data more accessible and environmental decision‐making more accountable through new social and technical infrastructures. The shift from DataRescue to Data Together exemplifies EDGI's ongoing attempts to put an “environmental data justice” prioritising community self‐determination into practice. By drawing on environmental justice, critical GIS, critical data studies, and emerging data justice scholarship, EDGI hopes to inform our ongoing engagement in projects that seek to enact alternative futures for data stewardship.

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Environmental Data Justice and the Trump Administration: Reflections from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

Cited by 33 publications

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Auditing the State: Everyday Forms of Institutional Resistance in the Mexican Freedom of Information Process

Auditing the State: Everyday Forms of Institutional Resistance in the Mexican Freedom of Information Process

Care in Trouble: Ecologies of Support from Below and Beyond

Practicing environmental data justice: From DataRescue to Data Together

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