Cosmopolitan ecological-justice institutions can shrink rather than extend local participatory inclusion

Evidence

Low and Gleeson are also quite attentive to, and supportive of the arguments regarding political participation as a means to environmental justice. They certainly see the link between participation, inclusive procedures, empowerment, and good environmental ends. They quote approvingly from some who have addressed the issue of participation and public discourse, speak positively of participatory and discursive procedures to attain environmental justice, and so seemingly understand the claim for a larger venue of justice. Yet these realizations regarding participation are not incorporated into their ideal principles or practices of ecological justice; rather, their proposed global cosmopolitan institutions leave little room for expanded participation, and would seem to diminish, rather than extend, political inclusion on environmental issues at the local level. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 411

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s procedural-justice lens: top-down global institutions may worsen the very participation deficits procedural justice is meant to remedy. — connects to: Community autonomy over local space is proposed as the essence of environmental justice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 203; Collaborative justice institutions fail to scale beyond the local or regional level — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 734; Deliberative inclusion in civil society lacks force without state institutionalization — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 695 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Community-driven development institutions do not spill over into everyday community governance #expands (0.78) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 145
• Collaborative justice institutions fail to scale beyond the local or regional level #qualifies (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 734
• Deliberative inclusion in civil society lacks force without state institutionalization #qualifies (0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 695