environmental justice

In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.

This article looks at marine conservation and fishing communities in the Gulf of Kachchh Marine National Park, India.

This article discusses the limits of warnings issued by scientists and what is needed for actual change.

This page lists syllabi, articles, and other online resources on the topic of environmental justice.

Drawing on interviews with 25 Australian environmental leaders, the authors ask how international instruments with cosmopolitan ambitions influence the discourse and practice of national and subnational environmentalists attempting to find common ground with Indigenous groups.

Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.

The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.

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.