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Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations

Journal of political ecology, 2014-12, Vol.21 (1), p.19-60 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 1073-0451 ;EISSN: 1073-0451 ;DOI: 10.2458/v21i1.21124

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  • Title:
    Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations
  • Author: Martinez-Alier, Joan ; Shmelev, Stanislav
  • Is Part Of: Journal of political ecology, 2014-12, Vol.21 (1), p.19-60
  • Description: In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, EJOs (environmental justice organizations) and their networks have introduced several concepts to political ecology that have also been taken up by academics and policy makers. In this paper, we explain the contexts in which such notions have arisen, providing definitions of a wide array of concepts and slogans related to environmental inequities and sustainability, and explore the connections and relations between them. These concepts include: environmental justice, ecological debt, popular epidemiology, environmental racism, climate justice, environmentalism of the poor, water justice, biopiracy, food sovereignty, "green deserts", "peasant agriculture cools downs the Earth", land grabbing, Ogonization and Yasunization, resource caps, corporate accountability, ecocide, and indigenous territorial rights, among others. We examine how activists have coined these notions and built demands around them, and how academic research has in turn further applied them and supplied other related concepts, working in a mutually reinforcing way with EJOs. We argue that these processes and dynamics build an activist-led and co-produced social sustainability science, furthering both academic scholarship and activism on environmental justice. Keywords: Political ecology, environmental justice organizations, environmentalism of the poor, ecological debt, activist knowledge
  • Publisher: University of Arizona Libraries
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1073-0451
    EISSN: 1073-0451
    DOI: 10.2458/v21i1.21124
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