Living environmentalisms: coalition politics, social reproduction, and environmental justice

Accumulation by dispossession in coastal Ecuador: Shrimp farming, local resistance and the gender structure of mobilizations

“…This family of movements is characterized by the broader ideological commitment to dissolve the boundaries that separate the ''environment'' from other social issues. The environment is comprehended in the geographies of everyday life: the places in which people live, work, play, learn or pray (Di Chiro, 2008). Environmental justice movements have also been called the ''environmentalism of the poor'' when referring to struggles taking place in the global South (Martínez-Alier, 2002).…”

“…Due to the gender division of work assigning to women a greater involvement in children and family health care, and in specific activities related to environment, women often constitute a critical mass in such struggles (Merchant, 1992;Martínez-Alier, 2002;Di Chiro, 2008) as, for example, in the Love Canal conflict in the USA, the Chipko movement in India, or the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. Feminist political ecologists argue that sexual division of work, power and access rights create different responsibilities and knowledge according to gender and make women and men perceive differently market intrusion and natural resources depletion, thus creating mobilizations structured according to gender (Rocheleau et al, 1996).…”

Towards an Holistic Framework for Environmental Change: The Role of Normative Behaviour and Informal Networking to Enhance Sustainable Business Practices

“…His 'Viable System Model' (VSM) was a proposal to overcome the traditional trend from most organisations to operate within hierarchical top-down approaches (Espinosa 2006), now widely recognised to be weaker than bottom-up/'grassroots' understanding in the organisation of complex social environments (Di Chiro 2008;Fung and O'rourke 2000;Seyfang and Smith 2007). The VSM provided an innovative approach to holistic diagnosis and design of organisations, addressing the recursive nature of command communication processes.…”

Transforming knowledge creation for environmental and epistemic justice

“…First, EJ is leading to a much more relational understanding of how we are connected, including on an intergenerational dimension (see literature on ecological debt for example [44,45], and how processes at one scale impact those at much larger scales [46]. EJ calls for new solidarities and alliances, for example with labour movements [47 ,48,49], ecofeminists [50], urban activists [51] and with those who struggle over green spaces and gentrification [52].…”