The multiple people of color origins of the US environmental justice movement: social movement spillover and regional racial projects in California

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2020.1848502

Tracy Perkins

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ABSTRACT This paper contributes to scholarship on the origins of the US environmental justice movement (EJM) through exploration of the early EJM in California. The national EJM is often seen as having grown out of the intersection of environmentalism and the Black civil rights movement in the 1982 protests in Warren County, North Carolina. This paper adds weight to alternate narratives that depict the EJM as drawing on a variety of racialized social movement infrastructures that vary regionally. These infrastructures, as they were built in California, are analyzed as regional racial projects responding to histories of white supremacy that are connected through social movement spillover. This conceptual framework illuminates the place-based ways in which racial oppression and racial justice responses create social movement infrastructure that persists across multiple movement formations, both across contemporary groups and through time. The paper draws on data gathered from existing case studies and oral histories, in-depth interviews, participant observation, and archival documents to offer a capacious view of the EJM’s origins.

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美国环境正义运动的多元有色人种起源：社会运动外溢与加州地区种族项目

本文通过对加州早期环境正义运动(EJM)的探索，为研究美国环境正义运动(EJM)的起源做出贡献。全国EJM通常被认为是由环境保护主义和1982年北卡罗来纳州沃伦县黑人民权运动的交叉发展而来。本文为另一种叙述增加了分量，这种叙述将EJM描述为利用各种不同地区的种族化社会运动基础设施。这些基础设施建在加州，被分析为地区性的种族项目，回应了白人至上的历史，这些历史通过社会运动的溢出效应联系在一起。这一概念框架阐明了基于地点的方式，即种族压迫和种族正义反应创造了社会运动基础设施，这些基础设施在多个运动形态中持续存在，既跨越当代群体，也跨越时间。本文从现有的案例研究、口述历史、深度访谈、参与者观察和档案文件中收集数据，为EJM的起源提供了一个广阔的视角。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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4.60

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12.00%

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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.