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dc.contributor.authorSvarstad, Hanne
dc.contributor.authorBenjaminsen, Tor A
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-01T12:19:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-09T17:58:07Z
dc.date.available2021-02-01T12:19:46Z
dc.date.available2021-03-09T17:58:07Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-29
dc.identifier.citationSvarstad H, Benjaminsen TA. Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens. Geoforum. 2020;108:1-11en
dc.identifier.issn0016-7185
dc.identifier.issn1872-9398
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/9956
dc.description.abstractEnvironmental justice (EJ) and political ecology (PE) have grown during recent decades to become leading critical approaches to socio-environmental analyses. The two fields share a history of pluralism and an openness to integrating new theoretical insights. Based on work by political philosophers in the radical justice tradition – such as Fraser, Young and Honneth – a 'radical environmental justice framework' has been established within EJ, focusing on three core elements: distributive justice, recognition and procedural justice. Later, inspired by Sen and Nussbaum, capabilities has been added as a fourth aspect. We have read this radical EJ framework through a PE lens and assess the potential for cross-fertilization between the two fields in relation to these four elements. First, the systematic treatment of distributive justice in the EJ literature provides a conceptualization that may be useful for PE in its specifications of various forms of injustice. Second, recognition is a useful perspective for both EJ and PE, but this aspect also highlights power relations that may need to be decolonized. To contribute to such a process of decolonization we suggest a focus on senses of justice and critical knowledge production. Third, the focus on procedural justice in the radical EJ framework would benefit from engagements with various power theories and discussions of participation that are prominent in the PE literature. Fourth, based on the PE viewpoint, we argue that there are two weaknesses in how capabilities theory tends to be used in the radical EJ literature: communities are discussed as homogenous groups without internal power relations; and actors and structures responsible for environmental injustice tend to be downplayed.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSome of the time spent working on this paper was financed by the Research Council of Norway through the Greenmentality project (project number 250975).en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGeoforum;Volume 108
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen
dc.subjectEnvironmental justiceen
dc.subjectDecolonizationen
dc.subjectRecognitionen
dc.subjectPoweren
dc.titleReading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lensen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2021-02-01T12:19:46Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.11.007
dc.identifier.cristin1787333
dc.source.journalGeoforum
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 250975


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