Environmental justice scholarship recognises and denounces the uneven spatio-temporal patterns of toxic exposures. In doing so, it often prioritises oppositional acts and standardised metrics of evidence of harm. In this essay, I explore the concept of jugarse la vida (wagering life) as a philosophy of vitality in toxic spaces to argue that desire and human agency have been obscured in environmental justice scholarship, specifically, the embodied and ordinary dimensions of how life is lived under conditions of environmental unfreedom. The essay proposes that locally developed analytics such as jugarse la vida can stand in for a theory of life under toxic conditions, specifically, a theory of marronage, and pushes for a critical engagement with the coloniality of North-centric concepts and frameworks in understanding environmental injustices in the global South.

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Jugarse La Vida：石油和婚姻的城市政治生态

环境正义奖学金承认并谴责有毒暴露的不均匀时空模式。在这样做时，它通常优先考虑反对行为和伤害证据的标准化指标。在这篇文章中，我探讨了jugarse la vida（投注生命）作为有毒空间中的活力哲学的概念，以争辩说欲望和人类能动性在环境正义学术中被模糊了，特别是生命的具体化和普通维度生活在环境不自由的条件下。这篇文章提出了本地开发的分析，例如jugarse la vida 可以代表有毒条件下的生活理论，特别是婚姻理论，并推动批判性地参与以北方为中心的概念和框架的殖民性，以理解全球南方的环境不公正。