GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: David Schlosberg, Attachment Theory, Place Identity
29 Oct 2018
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Session 12: new directions 4: community, attachment, and justice. The bomb in my backyard, the serpent in my house: environmental justice, risk, and the colonisation of attachment. environmental politics, According to groves environmental justice requires more than just the fair distribution of environmental benefits and harms, it also requires a recognition of cultural identities and participation in environmental decisions. The devaluation of place-based cultural identities is a source of injustice, whereby the lived strategies for dealing with an uncertain future is disturbed. This source of injustice can be viewed as the colonisation of attachment. The processes of colonisation from which indigenous peoples have suffered have created faulty environments characterised by stigmatisation and vulnerabilities. Clams of injustice are often constrained by developers and decision-makers. Attachment theory identifies attachment as a process and relationship that undergirds individual and collective capabilities. Place attachment is thus a capability in sen and nussbaum"s sense.
