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Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space ( IF 2.633 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 , DOI: 10.1177/23996544211042876
Maarten Loopmans 1, 1 , Linde Smits 1, 2 , Anneleen Kenis 1
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For more than a decade, a broad social movement has organised significant opposition to the expansion of the Antwerp ring road. By linking the very mobile, intangible and unplaceable problem of traffic-related air pollution to the highly local, concrete, immobile issue of the highway, they succeeded in creating the largest mobilization against air pollution ever in Belgium. A distributive justice discourse which portrayed Antwerp residents as being unfairly affected has played a crucial role in this endeavour. At the same time, the movement has struggled to involve and represent those who will be most affected by the ring road extension. Low income and ethnic minority residents living close to the ring road are strikingly absent from the movements’ ranks and tend to be silenced in its discourse. In this paper, we scrutinise this disparity between the social composition of the most affected areas and the social composition of the movement dealing with the issue, and reflect on the movement’s practices of knowledge production and dissemination from an environmental justice perspective. We highlight the need for expanding environmental justice beyond a merely distributive approach and argue that environmental justice movements need to see knowledge dissemination and public pedagogy as more than just a mobilizing strategy. Without pursuing equity in the distribution of networks, capabilities and knowledge, enhancing the possibilities of those who are most affected to develop their own strategies, environmental justice is difficult to realize.



中文翻译:

重新思考环境正义:能力建设、公共知识和与交通相关的空气污染的斗争

十多年来,一场广泛的社会运动组织了对扩建安特卫普环路的强烈反对。通过将与交通相关的空气污染这一流动性很强、无形且无法解决的问题与高度局部、具体、固定的高速公路问题联系起来,他们成功地发起了比利时有史以来最大规模的空气污染动员行动。将安特卫普居民描述为受到不公平影响的分配正义话语在这一努力中发挥了关键作用。与此同时,该运动一直在努力让那些受环城公路扩建影响最大的人参与进来并代表他们。居住在环路附近的低收入和少数民族居民明显不在运动队伍中,并且在其话语中往往保持沉默。在本文中,我们仔细审视受影响最严重地区的社会构成与处理该问题的运动的社会构成之间的这种差异,并从环境正义的角度反思运动的知识生产和传播实践。我们强调需要将环境正义扩展到不仅仅是分配方法,并认为环境正义运动需要将知识传播和公共教育视为不仅仅是一种动员策略。如果不追求网络、能力和知识分配的公平性,不增加受影响最大的人制定自己战略的可能性,环境正义就难以实现。并从环境正义的角度反思运动的知识生产和传播实践。我们强调需要将环境正义扩展到不仅仅是分配方法,并认为环境正义运动需要将知识传播和公共教育视为不仅仅是一种动员策略。如果不追求网络、能力和知识分配的公平性,不增加受影响最大的人制定自己战略的可能性,环境正义就难以实现。并从环境正义的角度反思运动的知识生产和传播实践。我们强调需要将环境正义扩展到不仅仅是分配方法,并认为环境正义运动需要将知识传播和公共教育视为不仅仅是一种动员策略。如果不追求网络、能力和知识分配的公平性,不增加受影响最大的人制定自己战略的可能性,环境正义就难以实现。我们强调需要将环境正义扩展到不仅仅是分配方法,并认为环境正义运动需要将知识传播和公共教育视为不仅仅是一种动员策略。如果不追求网络、能力和知识分配的公平性,不增加受影响最大的人制定自己战略的可能性,环境正义就难以实现。我们强调需要将环境正义扩展到不仅仅是分配方法,并认为环境正义运动需要将知识传播和公共教育视为不仅仅是一种动员策略。如果不追求网络、能力和知识分配的公平性,不增加受影响最大的人制定自己战略的可能性,环境正义就难以实现。

更新日期:2021-09-01
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