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Title (Primary) Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations
Author Martinez-Alier, J.; Anguelovski, I.; Bond, P.; Del Bene, D.; Demaria, F.; Gerber, J.-F.; Greyl, L.; Haas, W.; Healy, H.; Marín-Burgos, V.; Ojo, G.; Porto, M.; Rijnhout, L.; Rodríguez-Labajos, B.; Spangenberg, J.H.; Temper, L.; Warlenius, R.; Yánez, I.
Source Titel Journal of Political Ecology
Year 2014
Department BZF
Volume 21
Page From 19
Page To 60
Language englisch
UFZ wide themes RU1;
Abstract 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 sostainability science, furthering both academic scholarship and activism on environmental justice.
Persistent UFZ Identifier https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=15938
Martinez-Alier, J., Anguelovski, I., Bond, P., Del Bene, D., Demaria, F., Gerber, J.-F., Greyl, L., Haas, W., Healy, H., Marín-Burgos, V., Ojo, G., Porto, M., Rijnhout, L., Rodríguez-Labajos, B., Spangenberg, J.H., Temper, L., Warlenius, R., Yánez, I. (2014):
Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations
J. Pol. Ecol. 21 , 19 - 60