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Regenerative Parallaxing: Encouraging Trans-scalar Environmental Justice Research
Environmental justice research critically explores the bridging between social and environmental problems. This paper seeks to contribute to environmental justice research by focusing on the problems and politics of scale. Scalar politics contemplates scale as the result of social construction and sees how socio-political realities are influenced by scalar choice and characterization. Regarding environmental justice, acknowledging scalar politics foresees significant relationships between scalar and socio-environmental processes and ontologies. However, after thoroughly reviewing environmental justice literature, we find that scalar and trans-scalar problematization are not effectively addressed. For that reason, we argue that conveying scale to a central role in environmental justice research could enhance comprehensive analyses by depicting distinct layers and details of environmental (in)justice. A particular idea we suggest is trans-scalar environmental justice, or incorporating the inquiry of scalar assemblage and interaction into environmental justice research. Moreover, as exemplary cases to expand on, we draw attention to the politics of scale in ecology, as well as to the emerging scalar problematization in environmental justice research. Ultimately, the overall aim of this paper is to contribute to environmental justice research and, this way, to environmental justice.
Info
Day:
2023-08-30
Start time:
10:15
Duration:
00:15
Room:
ZV-8-9
Type:
Paper Presentation
Theme:
Climate (in)justice
