2017

18 December 2017

EJ series, part 7: challenging the fossil state: ‘environmental justice’ as a strategic discursive bridge

When our politicians refuse to acknowledge the imminent deadlines for change demanded by climate science, what scope is there for researchers to challenge and go beyond deadlocked political institutions? This blog post reflects upon some of the answers provided by researchers presenting at the 2017 Environmental Justice (EJ) Conference. I consider EJ’s conceptual usefulness for integrating tractable political demands into an overarching rights-based discourse.

14 December 2017

EJ Series, part 6: considerations of procedural justice in national adaptation plans

This article is based on a paper presented by Abbie White at the Environmental Justice 2017: Looking Back, Looking Forward Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017 and is a part of Abbie’s broader PhD research.

11 December 2017

EJ Series, part 5: climate change, urban heat and ethnically diverse communities

This blog is based on a paper presented by Phil McManus at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017.

11 December 2017

EJ series, part 4: propagules, pumps and briny relations

Susan Reid offers meditations on the material liveliness and relationality of the ocean itself as providing conditions in which alter-imaginaries for governance might emerge. This blog is based on a paper presented at the Environmental Justice 2017: Looking Back, Looking Forward Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017.

06 December 2017

EJ Series, part 3: (re)articulating sustainable hydropower: the resistance against Belo Monte

This blog is based on a paper presented by Ed Atkins at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017, and is a part of his broader PhD research.

30 November 2017

EJ Series, part 2: your place or mine? Environmental (in)justice in Myanmar and Australian activism

Johanna Garnett highlights the transnational environmental justice issues and consequences which stemmed from activism against the development of a gas hub at James Price Point, Western Australia. This blog is based on a paper presented by Johanna Garnett at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, University of Sydney, 6-8 November 2017.

29 November 2017

Great Barrier Reef stories, chapter 2: let’s talk about coral sex

The second chapter of Killian Quigley’s ‘Great Barrier Reef Stories’ explores how we respond to & narrate nonhuman sex. Killian considers how the rethinking of coral spawning discourse can lead us to view coral sex as important, compelling, precious, and as vulnerable as we ought to.

27 November 2017

Environmental justice handbook: capturing the breadth and diversity of environmental justice research

Gordon Walker, a co-editor of the recently released Environmental Justice Handbook provides an overview of how the Handbook sets out to critically assess the current state of EJ and set an agenda for the future.

23 November 2017

EJ Series part 1: post-hegemonic futures: decolonising intergenerational environmental justice

This blog is based on a paper presented by Christine Winter at the Environmental Justice 2017 Conference, Sydney University, 6-8 November 2017.

15 November 2017

Implicatory denial: the sociology of climate inaction

Exploring how and why people who believe in climate change choose to ignore it, and how people can be empowered to take climate action.