“Participation”, White Privilege and Environmental Justice: Understanding Environmentalism Among Hispanics in Toronto

Abstract

The environmental justice movement has highlighted not only the unequal distribution of environmental hazards across lines of race and class, but also the white, middle-class nature of some environmentalisms, and broader patterns of marginalization underlying people's opportunities to participate or not.

Environmental Equity Research: Review With Focus on Outdoor Air Pollution Research Methods and Analytic Tools

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Environmental justice in the environmental non‐governmental organization landscape of Toronto (Canada)

“…Interestingly, many of the interview participants who aligned their organization's work with an EJ frame were personally influenced by their previous work or educational exposure to EJ. Similar to Gibson-Wood and Wakefield (2013), this study found that Toronto-based EJ activists were often open to questioning what gets positioned as being an environmental problem and to conceiving the relationship between race, space, and environment in Toronto in new ways.…”

Towards a political economy of ecodocumentary

“…This makeup reflects one of the darker sides of American environmentalism. Environmentalism in the United States has not been, for the most part, very open to or inclusive of women (Gottlieb 1993: 234) or people of colour (Gibson-Wood and Wakefield 2013;Gottlieb 1993: 260−62;Taylor 1997) and often fails to take the interests of working class people into account (Gottlieb 1993: 306;Taylor 1997).…”