Seeking Environmental Justice 3: Within, Against, and Beyond the State
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Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Centennial Ballroom D, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Energy and Environment Specialty Group, Political Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Jill Harrison University of Colorado Boulder
Jonathan London University of California-Davis
Chair(s):
Jill Harrison University of Colorado Boulder
Jonathan London University of California-Davis
Description:
Environmental justice activists have had vexed relationships with settler colonial states given their central role in colonial dispossession, racial capitalism, and the production of environmental inequity. At once engaging with the state as an ally, a target, and an opponent, EJ activists have struggled with inherent tensions in these different strategic positionings. In recent years, some EJ scholars, emphasizing the state's violence and failure to protect communities against the depredations of capital, have counseled an oppositional and even anarchistic rejection of the state (Pellow 2018; Pulido, Kohl, and Cotton 2016; Pulido and De Lara 2018). While some scholars illustrate the persistence and importance of confrontational EJ politics in opposition to settler state practices (Estes 2019), other scholars have explored the possibilities and limitations of EJ activists' engagement with state institutions (Harrison 2019; London and Harrison 2021; Méndez 2020; Perkins 2022). These tensions parallel and can be brought into closer conversation with debates among political ecologists, political geographers, and Native American and Indigenous studies scholars about the extent to which social movements can and should pursue socially just change through engagement with state institutions. Within those debates, some scholars have observed the value of hybrid strategies including those that pursue justice "within, against, and beyond" the state (Angel and Loftus 2019; Cumbers 2015; Routledge et al 2018). These sessions will explore the tensions, contradictions, and divergent approaches to EJ movements' relationships with the state.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Jonathan K London, UC Davis Geography Graduate Group |
Transforming Air Quality Policy From Within? Environmental Justice and California’s Community Air Protection Policy |
Leah Horowitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice, and the Dakota Access Pipeline. |
Ellen Kohl, University of Maryland - Baltimore County |
Children’s Environmental Health, Environmental Justice and the state |
Raoul Lievanos, University of Oregon |
Neglected Spaces: Racialized Flood and Sea Level Rise Riskscapes and the State Space of Environmental and Climate Justice in California |
Discussion |
Non-Presenting Participants
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| Discussant | Ryan Holifield |
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Seeking Environmental Justice 3: Within, Against, and Beyond the State
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Centennial Ballroom D, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Jill Harrison University of Colorado Boulder
jill.harrison@colorado.edu
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