Collective identity and dignified recognition define social movements like environmental justice
Evidence
An understanding of collective identity is central to social movements (Melluci 1989); this is why they are social movements, and not simply individual actions or collections of individual actions. One of the main reasons for the attraction and success of the environmental justice movement is its link with the civil rights framework (Camacho 1998; Taylor 2000; Faber and McCarthy 2003); key to this link is the common focus on the dignity of recognition of both individuals and communities (Agyeman, Bullard, and Evans 2003: 7). — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 229
Categorization
- XREF: Gives the reader the definitional handle they want: social movements are collective identity claims for recognition, applicable across the polyad readings. — connects to: Environmental justice groups organize already-existing communities that insist on recognition — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 230; Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 12; Environmental justice movement misrecognition operates at both personal and community levels. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 227 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity
#expands(0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298 - Global environmental justice movements define justice as distribution plus recognition, participation, and capabilities.
#expands(0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 276 - Some social movements aim at ethical self-formation rather than rights and recognition politics
#complicates(0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1283 - Political movements require private indignation to coalesce into collective identity
#expands(0.70) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 20