Advancing Du Bois's Legacy Through Emancipatory Environmental Sociology.

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-18 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2023.2226448
Jennifer S Carrera
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Environmental sociology, while dedicating significant scholarship to issues of environmental racism and environmental justice, remains a predominately white subdiscipline that has not enjoyed general relevance across sociology. One of the drivers of the dominance of white perspectives in the subdiscipline is the lack of a core theoretical pillar that anchors the importance of racism to structuring inequitable environments. W.E.B. Du Bois not only offered a foundational approach to sociological inquiry, but also a deeply material perspective on the maintenance of racial inequities. Du Bois's approach to sociology lays the path for a liberatory approach that documents the scope of a problem, interrogates its drivers, and works with affected communities and allied resources to develop alternative models with transformative outcomes. This paper argues that an environmental understanding was original to Du Bois's methodology as demonstrated through his concept of the total environment. He connected inequitable environments to the legacy of racial capitalism, which he saw as driven by anti-Blackness. His solution was to advance Black solidarity and community cooperatives through Pan-Africanism. Du Bois' framework establishes an approach to conducting emancipatory environmental sociology that provides theoretical and methodological legitimacy for engaging in partnership with marginalized communities to advance their goals towards liberation.

通过解放的环境社会学来推进杜波依斯的遗产
环境社会学虽然致力于环境种族主义和环境正义问题的重要学术研究,但仍然是一个以白人为主的分支学科,在整个社会学中没有普遍的相关性。白人观点在这一分支学科中占据主导地位的驱动因素之一,是缺乏一个核心理论支柱来支撑种族主义对构建不公平环境的重要性。W.E.B.杜波依斯不仅提供了社会学研究的基本方法,而且对种族不平等的维持提供了深刻的物质视角。杜波依斯的社会学方法为一种解放的方法奠定了道路,这种方法记录问题的范围,询问其驱动因素,并与受影响的社区和相关资源合作,开发具有变革结果的替代模型。本文认为,环境理解是杜波依斯方法论的原创性,这一点通过他的总环境概念得到了证明。他将不公平的环境与种族资本主义的遗产联系起来,他认为这是由反黑人驱动的。他的解决方案是通过泛非主义促进黑人团结和社区合作社。杜波依斯的框架建立了一种指导解放环境社会学的方法,为与边缘化社区合作以推进他们的解放目标提供了理论和方法上的合法性。
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Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
CiteScore
4.60
自引率
12.00%
发文量
34
期刊介绍: Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.
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