What is it about?
This article links the Black Lives Matter movement to the issue of environmental justice---which is a framework that connects human rights to environmental concerns.
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Why is it important?
This article allows us to see the Black Lives Matter movement and the issue of state-sanctioned racist violence through a different lens that can facilitate key linkages across issue areas, civil society sectors, and social movements that are often unconnected.
Perspectives
My sense is that one of the limitations of the popular perception of the Black Lives Matter movement lies in its specificity and focus on the violence directed at a single population, when, in fact, BLM's implications are so much more expansive than that. This paper addresses those possibilities while also offering principled critiques of the movement as well.
David Pellow
UCSB
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This page is a summary of: TOWARD A CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE STUDIES, Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race, January 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x1600014x.
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