Acknowledging the racial state: An agenda for environmental justice research

Spaces of Environmental Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 95-115

  Kurtz, Hilda E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acknowledging racial state agenda for environmental justice research; Critical race theory offering environmental justice (EJ); Environmental justice literature three key debates; Geographic scholarship on EJ shaping key tensions; Modern liberal state, messy and contradictory racial category management; National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) and Interagency Working Group; Race versus class debate methodological choices of spatial unit(s), demographic data and pollution data; Racial state and racial movements, as EJ movements in racial formation framework; Re entangling racism and capitalism tracing effects of state policies in shaping; Rethinking environmental in justice research.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886472423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322767.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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