ABSTRACT

The field of environmental justice studies has blossomed into a multidisciplinary body of scholarship in the last few decades with contributions across the social sciences, humanities, law, and the sciences. Our framing of environmental justice scholarship centers on the necessity of examining the role of state and institutional violence in producing environmental injustice through interlocking systems of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and enslavement. We link themes of violence and the role of the state in the expansion of environmental justice studies to the major topics of land and resource conflicts, prisons and incarceration, and emotions. We draw on this scholarship to explore how theories and politics of environmental justice are inflected by the constraints and leverage points within racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and the afterlives of enslavement. This paper offers an assessment of theoretical advances, and charts a course for next possible stages of the literature’s development and EJ activism.

摘要

在过去的几十年中，环境正义研究领域已发展成一个多学科的学术机构，并在社会科学，人文科学，法律和科学领域做出了巨大贡献。我们对环境正义奖学金的框架建立在对通过种族资本主义，定居者殖民主义和奴役的相互联系的制度来研究国家和机构暴力在产生环境不公正中的作用的必要性的必要性上。我们将暴力主题和国家在扩大环境正义研究中的作用与土地和资源冲突，监狱和监禁以及情感等主要主题联系起来。我们利用这项奖学金来研究环境正义论和政治如何受到种族资本主义，定居者殖民主义，和奴役的来世。本文对理论进展进行了评估，并为下一阶段的文学发展和EJ行动主义绘制了路线图。