GEOG 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Neoliberalism, Fordism, Move
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Environmental racism: differential exposure to harm and limiting access to resources that are reliant on, or that reproduce forms of radial differentiation. Includes both the actions of institutions, industries and governments but also their failure to act. Links to ideals of white privilege --> also important to look at different processes to evaluate environmental racism. Environmental justice: the right for everyone to enjoy and benefit from a safe and healthy environment, regardless of rice, class, gender or ethnicity. Environmental justice is a social movement that takes social justice and environmental politics as inseperable (so they are fundamentally connected) Argued that the geographies of environmental racism are related to the geographies of white privilege. Analyzed it as a structural and dynamic process. Also argues that you cannot consider it as something negative --> it is also related to social and economic privilege. White people essentially gain superior and cleaner environments by moving away from industrial environments --> essentially lead to decentralization.
