Women’s Pathways Into Activism

Perkins, Tracy

doi:10.1177/1086026612445390

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“…The most notable examples, include Perkins 2015 [9], Perkins 2012 [10], Bell 2013 [11], Bell 2010 [12], Buckingham and Kulcur 2009 [13], Kurtz 2007 [14], Nightingale 2006 [6], Sze 2004 [15], Sze 2006 [16], Verchick 2004 [17], Warren 1991 [18], Platt 1997 [19], Kirk 1997 [20] and Krauss 1993 [21] among others mentioned in this paper. Buckingham and Kulcer [13] consider that this may be because women are not necessarily found in specific or segregated geographic locations.…”

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Bread and Roses: A Gender Perspective on Environmental Justice and Public Health

Bell

2016

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Gender continues to be a relatively marginal issue in environmental justice debates and yet it remains an important aspect of injustice. To help redress the balance, this article explores women’s experience of environmental justice through a review of the existing literature and the author’s prior qualitative research, as well as her experience of environmental activism. The analysis confirms that women tend to experience inequitable environmental burdens (distributional injustice); and are less likely than men to have control over environmental decisions (procedural injustice), both of which impact on their health (substantive injustice). It is argued that these injustices occur because women generally have lower incomes than men and are perceived as having less social status than their male counterparts as a result of entwined and entrenched capitalist and patriarchal processes. In the light of this analysis, it is proposed that environmental justice research, teaching, policy and practice should be made more gender aware and feminist orientated. This could support cross-cutting debates and activities in support of the radical social change necessary to bring about greater social and environmental justice more generally.

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Bread and Roses: A Gender Perspective on Environmental Justice and Public Health

Bell

2016

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“…Decades of environmental justice organizing and research by allied environmental health scientists throughout the SJV have helped to bring increased state-level regulatory scrutiny to the inadequate and exclusionary development patterns, environmental policies, and decision making processes in the SJV. Advocates and allies have targeted these developments, policies, and processes because they have placed vulnerable residents and communities at increased risk of exposures to toxic air pollution and other hazardous substances in the SJV [69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79].…”

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Racialized Structural Vulnerability: Neighborhood Racial Composition, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Fine Particulate Matter in California

Liévanos

2019

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This study contributes to previous research by advancing a “racialized structural vulnerability” framework and presenting a new empirical analysis of the relationship between neighborhood Asian, Black, and Latinx composition; extrinsic and intrinsic vulnerability; and PM2.5 exposures in California with secondary data from 2004–2014. Principal component analyses revealed that tract Latinx composition was highly correlated with extrinsic vulnerability (economic disadvantage and limited English-speaking ability), and that tract Black composition was highly correlated with intrinsic vulnerability (elevated prevalence of asthma-related emergency department visits and low birth weight). Spatial lag regression models tested hypotheses regarding the association between Asian, Black, and Latinx population vulnerability factors and the 2009–2011 annual average PM2.5 percentile rankings, net of emissions and spatial covariates. Results indicated that the percent Latinx population, followed by the regional clustering of PM2.5, and the percent of non-Latinx Black and non-Latinx Asian population were the strongest positive multivariable correlates of PM2.5 percentile rankings, net of other factors. Additional analyses suggested that despite shifting demographic and spatial correlates of 2012–2014 PM2.5 exposures, the tracts’ Black and Latinx composition and location in the San Joaquin Valley remain important vulnerability factors with implications for future research and policy.

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“…With the increasing complexity of the current global social environment (e.g., migration crises, widening gap between rich and poor, etc. ), the distribution and use of urban green spaces are increasingly showing inequality and spatial segregation [14,15]. Currently, the justice of PGS in high-density urban areas is an important issue in the field of social justice, with major implications for public health and social integration [16][17][18][19].…”

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“…Numerous studies have shown that there are differences in the degree to which different groups use PGS [21][22][23][24][25]. Green space inequity is mostly impacted by income, racial characteristics, age, gender, and low residential area groups [15,[22][23][24][26][27][28]. Social status can also impact green inequity, with migrants disadvantaged in their access to urban green space and differences in social background, culture and language potentially preventing migrant groups from using parks for daily communication and activities [29].…”

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Public Green Space Injustice in High-Density Post-Colonial Areas: A Case Study of the Macau Peninsula, China

Sun,

Liu

2024

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Public green spaces (PGSs) play a positive role in urban social sustainability and solidarity, as all urban dwellers can access them without discrimination or restrictions, but urbanization usually leads to an extreme shortage of PGSs and thus it becomes an important spatial resource that is competed for by different groups, especially migrant populations. Taking the Macau Peninsula as an example, this study employed a hybrid analysis approach, including the spatial Gini coefficient, spatial share index and spatial quality assessment, to look at the PGS injustice in high-density post-colonial areas. The results showed that (1) there is a “spatial mismatch” in the Peninsula’s PGS; (2) significant PGS service differences have been found between the colonial group (Portuguese) and immigrant group (Southeast Asian); and (3) a comparative analysis of the changes in the equity of PGSs over the past 40 years reveals that the PGS tends to be equitable overall, but the differences between groups have gradually increased. PGS injustice mainly depends on the spatial production mechanism during the colonial period of Macau and the spatial selection and limitation of groups due to differential social integration. Based on this, this work proposes recommendations for the planning and construction of PGS in terms of urban renewal and social sustainability, as well as new reclamation areas, in Macau. This study broadens the field and helps to improve the PGS inequality in high-density post-colonial areas, aiding regional sustainable development.

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Women’s Pathways Into Activism

Cited by 31 publications

References 23 publications

Bread and Roses: A Gender Perspective on Environmental Justice and Public Health

Bread and Roses: A Gender Perspective on Environmental Justice and Public Health

Racialized Structural Vulnerability: Neighborhood Racial Composition, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Fine Particulate Matter in California

Public Green Space Injustice in High-Density Post-Colonial Areas: A Case Study of the Macau Peninsula, China

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