GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Environmental Racism, Intersectionality, Rationality

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

Laura pulido, geographies of race and ethnicity ii: environmental racism, racial capitalism and state-sanctioned violence. progress in human geography 41: 4. David pellow, toward a critical environmental justice studies: black lives matter as an environmental justice challenge. du bois review, 13:2 (2016) 221 236. Laura pulido, geographies of race and ethnicity ii: environmental racism, racial capitalism and state-sanctioned violence. The environmental racism gap: highlights the environmental disparities between white and nonwhite communities. Sites for the production of racism includes the ability to prove discriminatory intent-a requirement of a 2001 supreme court decision, discriminatory enforcement along racial lines, historical narratives of racism (racism predates capitalism and is used by diverse economic systems). Race cannot always be contained by capitalism and its economic analysis excludes its human impact. Differential value is produced and extracted via racialised labor systems, the appropriation and access of land. Capitalism is a way of organising nature through the restructuring of the human on a cellular level.