This article contributes to the environmental justice debate by analysing the case of the ILVA steel plant in Taranto, Italy. It accounts for the radical polarisation of the public debate between industrialists and environmentalists. These dominant perspectives are polarised but not politicised. In the reading of the crisis, both fronts adopt similar techno-scientific arguments while failing to problematise the multiple dimensions of environmental injustice and to connect the crisis to broader social relations of production. This article contends, therefore, that the environmental debate in Taranto unfolds in a post-political situation, where technical narratives prevail at the expense of more political positions. In this context, any attempts to politicise the public debate is either absorbed by the dominant views or marginalised.

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以科技的名义：后政治环境辩论与塔兰托钢铁厂（意大利）

本文通过分析意大利塔兰托 ILVA 钢铁厂的案例，为环境正义辩论做出贡献。它解释了工业家和环保主义者之间公开辩论的激进两极分化。这些占主导地位的观点是两极分化的，但没有被政治化。在解读这场危机时，双方都采用了类似的技术科学论点，但未能解决环境不公正的多个方面的问题，也未能将危机与更广泛的社会生产关系联系起来。因此，本文认为塔兰托的环境辩论是在后政治局势中展开的，在这种情况下，技术叙事以牺牲更多政治立场为代价。在这种情况下，任何将公共辩论政治化的尝试要么被主流观点所吸收，要么被边缘化。