State Regulation and Environmental Justice: The Need for Strategy Reassessment

Pulido, Laura; Kohl, Ellen; Cotton, Nicole-Marie

doi:10.1080/10455752.2016.1146782

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“…Since the detainees of these facilities are vulnerable, marginalized populations (undocumented immigrants who are often women and children), we argue that these health threats constitute environmental injustices, and the cumulative and combinatorial effects of exposure to one or more of these risks is considerable. We also demonstrate that these practices are the direct result of government policies and are therefore examples of environmental injustice as state violence (Pulido 2016 [40]; Pulido et al 2016 [29]).…”

Section: Overview Of Ej Issues In Immigrant Detention Prisons *mentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Studying environmental injustices in prisons also affords scholars the opportunity to push our analyses and proposals for solutions far beyond the typically reformist orientation of the literature. That is, much of the EJ literature tends to imagine justice being successfully exacted from existing structural and political arrangements (for a critique, see Benford 2005 [108]), while a growing number of scholars contend that justice is likely only possible after the abolition of capitalism, the nation state, or both (Pulido, Kohl, and Cotton 2016 [29]). While such a transformation may be unlikely in the near future, the prison is a space where one can appreciate the logic of scholars and activists who embrace such visions of change because it is an inherently brutal form of state-sanctioned violence, supported by unforgiving market economy institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Even so, the legal system and the courts have generally not been effective sites for the promotion of environmental justice movement goals, either for native born or immigrant communities (Cole and Foster 2000 [26]; Gross and Stretesky 2015 [27]). Therefore, a number of scholars have begun to question the wisdom of researchers and activists seeking redress for environmental injustices through state-based institutions (see, for example, Kurtz 2009 [28]; Pulido, Kohl and Cotton 2016 [29]).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Intersection of Race, Immigration Status, and Environmental Justice

Pellow

Vazin

2019

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Environmental injustice occurs when marginalized groups face disproportionate environmental impacts from a range of threats. Environmental racism is a particular form of environmental injustice and frequently includes the implementation of policies, regulations, or institutional practices that target communities of color for undesirable waste sites, zoning, and industry. One example of how the United States federal and state governments are currently practicing environmental racism is in the form of building and maintaining toxic prisons and immigrant detention prisons, where people of color and undocumented persons are the majority of inmates and detainees who suffer disproportionate health risk and harms. This article discusses the historical and contemporary conditions that have shaped the present political landscape of racial and immigration conflicts and considers those dynamics in the context of the literature on environmental justice. Case studies are then presented to highlight specific locations and instances that exemplify environmental injustice and racism in the carceral sector. The article concludes with an analysis of the current political drivers and motivations contributing to these risks and injustices, and ends with a discussion of the scale and depth of analysis required to alleviate these impacts in the future, which might contribute to greater sustainability among the communities affected.

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“…Other environmental groups have used substantially different strategies to work toward similar environmental ends, pushing, for example, for more robust forms of federal compliance with FPIC commitments (Hanna and Vanclay ), an international tribunal that would prosecute crimes of ecocide (Higgins, Short, and South ), deeper consideration of the environmental justice concerns of affected communities before granting environmental permits (Pulido, Kohl, and Cotton, ), an extension of human rights to include the “right to a healthy environment” (Boyd ), and the “right to a safe climate” [e.g., Juliana v. United States , 217 F. Supp. 3d 1224, (D. Or.…”

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Challenging Corporate “Personhood”: Energy Companies and the “Rights” of Non‐Humans

Fitz-Henry

2018

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Since the early 2000s, the idea of “rights” for nature has gained increasing traction among environmental activists throughout the Americas. Drawing on a series of recent legal cases in the state of Pennsylvania, this article tracks the efforts of a U.S.‐based nongovernmental organization to use such rights in ongoing struggles against energy companies involved in natural gas extraction. The central argument is that, despite their considerable philosophical and practical difficulties, the rights of nature are being productively used as part of a grassroots movement of civil disobedience that aims to simultaneously challenge corporate personhood and reestablish the power of local communities to defend the rights of ecosystems within their jurisdictions. By explicitly juxtaposing the “rights” of nature with the “rights” of corporate persons, local communities facing the impacts of natural gas extraction are attempting not only to make substantive claims about the legal defensibility of nonhuman rights but also, just as importantly, to set precedents for the revocation of corporate personhood. Close attention to these arguments suggests ways of bringing together recent work on corporate personhood with theoretical insights drawn from political ontology.

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“…However, R-Urban is not alone in its struggle for social and environmental justice as other communities have also failed (Pulido, Kohl, & Cotton, 2016).…”

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Co-producing commons-based resilience: lessons from R-Urban

Petrescu

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Baibarac

2016

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The co-production of resilience in European urban neighbourhoods is explored based on the experiences from a case study. Within the current 'resilience imperative', co-production processes involving multiple stakeholders can be a key factor for increasing cities' resilience. Co-produced resilience processes are more successful when embedded in collaborative forms of governance such as those associated with urban commons and when fulfilling needed roles with a community. Through the application of the R-Urban approach in a neighbourhood of Colombes (near Paris), the co-production of a commons-based resilience strategy is described. This involved a group of designers as initiators and a number of citizen as stakeholders of a network of civic hubs. The specific strategies involving a participatory setting, collective governance aspects and circular economies are analysed in the light of co-production theories and practices. Internal and external challenges are identified within the implementation process. The nature of conflicts and negotiations in this co-production approach are discussed, and the role of the architects/designers as agents within the process is investigated. Reflections from this example are provided on the limits and promises of this approach and the lessons learned from R-Urban for collaborative civic resilience.

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State Regulation and Environmental Justice: The Need for Strategy Reassessment

Cited by 101 publications

References 20 publications

The Intersection of Race, Immigration Status, and Environmental Justice

The Intersection of Race, Immigration Status, and Environmental Justice

Challenging Corporate “Personhood”: Energy Companies and the “Rights” of Non‐Humans

Co-producing commons-based resilience: lessons from R-Urban

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