Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Sze, Julie

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“…Contemporary urban sustainability research should entail a recognition of -and challenge to -the fact that dominant forms of urban sustainability planning and thinking are socially, economically and racially narrow. In the American context, the environmental justice movement has advanced this critique both intellectually and politically for more than four decades (Bullard, 2018;Pulido, 2000;Sze, 2020), although it has been slow to reach other patches of the urban-environmental field, as Keil (2020) notes. Indeed, Loughran (2020Loughran ( : 2334; see also Loughran, 2017) describes the coproduction of racial and spatial exclusion as 'the overarching historical issue looming over the politics of urban green space in the USA'.…”

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Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?

2020

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This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustainability policy agenda in the Global North has been in large part a reaction to several decades of urban expansion and car-based planning. The second is informal settlements: since the introduction of UN-HABITAT in 1978, an international policy agenda has formed around addressing the environmental deficits associated with processes of informal urbanisation above all in the Global South. And the third is climate change, as the overarching concern that connects urban-environmental problems and policies in the North and South. We then contextualise the articles in this special issue by outlining a new research agenda for decoding the notion that cities can save the planet, which emphasises the need for an historical, multi-spatial, political and representational analysis of urban sustainability thinking and policy.

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Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?

2020

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“…We learn from the stories we are given, and now endeavor to learn to tell the stories of our encounters. In this interdisciplinary, place-based praxis of meshwork, to borrow words from environmental justice scholar and activist Julie Sze, "it is precisely now that imagination and action become essential" [33] (p. 1).…”

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Situating Indigenous Resilience: Climate Change and Tayal’s “Millet Ark” Action in Taiwan

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Whereas indigenous people are on the frontlines of global environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and numerous other forms of critical planetary deterioration, the indigenous experiences, responses, and cultural practices have been underestimated in the mainstream frameworks of environmental studies. This paper aims to articulate a meaningful response to recent calls to indigenous and local knowledge on food as a source of resilience in the face of global climate change. By retrieving the values and practices indigenous people of Taiwan, specifically Tayal women, associate with human and non-human ecologies, our collaborative work with the indigenous community explores indigenous resilience and its relevance to indigenous cultural knowledge and global environmental concerns. Pivoting on the “Millet Ark” action, a Tayal conservation initiative of the bio-cultural diversity of millets, this study revolves around issues of how Tayal communities adapt to the climate change, how to reclaim their voice, heritage, knowledge, place, and land through food, and how to narrate indigenous “counter-stories” of resilience and sustainability. The cultural narrative of “Millet Ark” investigates indigenous way of preserving millet bio-cultural diversity and restoring the land and community heritage, inquiring into how Tayal people are adaptive and resilient to change and therefore sustainable through the cultural and social life of millets.

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“…Th is is, of course, is not the fi rst political crossroads that EJ has faced (Pulido 2015;Sze and London 2008). We similarly refl ect on Sze (2020) and Whyte (2018a) to note that EJ is experiencing both a renaissance as well as something of a radical reinvention through ideas of relationality and decoloniality. Moreover, as noted above, EJ has reached global audiences, yet ethnographic engagement with global or international EJ movements is scant.…”

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The Double Force of Vulnerability

Gutierrez

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Pendergrast

2021

Environment and Society

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This article reviews ethnographic literature of environmental justice (EJ). Both a social movement and scholarship, EJ is a crucial domain for examining the intersections of environment, well-being, and social power, and yet has largely been dominated by quantitative and legal analyses. A minority literature in comparison, ethnography attends to other valences of injustice and modes of inequality. Through this review, we argue that ethnographies of EJ forward our understanding of how environmental vulnerability is lived, as communities experience and confront toxic environments. Following a genealogy of EJ, we explore three prominent ethnographic thematics of EJ: the production of vulnerability through embodied toxicity; the ways that injustice becomes embedded in landscapes; and how processes like research collaborations and legal interventions become places of thinking and doing the work of justice. Finally, we identify emergent trends and challenges, suggesting future research directions for ethnographic consideration.

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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

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Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?

Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?

Situating Indigenous Resilience: Climate Change and Tayal’s “Millet Ark” Action in Taiwan

The Double Force of Vulnerability

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