The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
With an emphasis on national parks, this article examines the kinds of environmental edges particular to South Africa and to Africa more generally.
The authors draw on empirical experience to assess the extent of the impact of race and social equity in conservation, with the aim of promoting sustainable and more inclusive conservation practices in South Africa. Their findings suggest conservation practices in post-apartheid South Africa are still exclusionary for the majority black population.
Teena Gabrielson examines the visual politics at work in website photographs depicting environmental justice issues in the United States. She argues for a more inclusive socio-ecological politics which requires visual strategies that resist racialized ways of seeing and make visible the injustice of disproportionate environmental impacts on low-income communities and people of color.