Where we live, work and play: Refraining the cultural landscape of environmentalism in the environmental justice movement

Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves: African Diasporic Environmental Justice Movements

“…From the outset, Black environmental-justice activists distinguished themselves from mainstream environmentalists by defining the environment as ''where we live, work, play and pray.'' In other words, for grassroots activists, the environment includes air, water, and soil as well as housing, schools, employment, and all of the resources to which they have historically been denied access (see Checker 2005a;Harvey 1996;Novotny 1995Novotny , 1998. Some mainstream environmental groups have adopted this expansive definition.…”

Competing Frames of Environmental Contamination: Influences on Grassroots Community Mobilization

“…Many studies (Shriver et al 1998;Shemtov 1999;Novotny 1995;Griffin and Dunwoody 1997;Epstein 1996) use framing to explain how issues were presented through the media and by government officials. As expected, in almost all cases, the researchers concluded that social action was influenced by the message that actors received about a given problem.…”

The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements

“…There are also "intersectional" movements that explicitly link ethnic subordination issues to another issue. Examples of intersectional movements include the environmental justice movement (Capek 1993;Checker 2004;Marquez 1998;Novotny 1995;Perrolle 1993) and the movement of women of color for reproductive rights (Cole and Luna 2010;Luna 2009Luna , 2010Luna , 2011 or the Black Lives Matter movement that focuses on police violence, but is linked to a broader Black movement agenda.…”