This article examines the visual politics at work in website photographs depicting environmental justice issues in the United States. Based on roughly 580 web-published photos collected from environmental justice organizations, the Environmental Protection Agency, the mainstream media, and traditional environmental organizations in the US, this article examines variations in how the subjects of environmental justice are represented and the potential meaning of these representations for viewers. The article identifies three particular photographic genres that serve as landmarks within the environmental justice visual terrain: the fence-line photo, the portrait, and the protest snapshot. Drawing on the literatures of environmental political theory and black visual culture, I position the photos of contemporary environmental justice within the larger discursive, visual, and political contexts that infuse them with meaning. In interpreting these meanings, I argue that a more inclusive socio-ecological politics requires visual strategies that resist racialized ways of seeing while making visible the injustice of disproportionate environmental impacts on low-income communities and people of color.

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环境正义的视觉政治

本文在描述美国环境正义问题的网站照片中考察了工作中的视觉政治。基于从美国环境司法组织，环境保护署，主流媒体和传统环境组织收集的大约580张网络发布照片，本文研究了环境司法主题的代表方式及其潜在含义观众的陈述。本文确定了在环境正义视觉领域中充当地标的三种特殊摄影类型：围栏照片，肖像和抗议快照。借鉴环境政治理论和黑人视觉文化的文献，我将当代环境正义的照片放置在较大的话语，视觉和政治环境中，使它们充满意义。在解释这些含义时，我认为，更具包容性的社会生态政治需要视觉策略，抵制种族化的观看方式，同时使对低收入社区和有色人种的环境影响不公道。