Environmental degradation of sacred land constitutes a recognition injustice

Evidence

While native cultures see the home landscape of these nations as sacred ground, the majority culture sees the land as a national sacrifice zone (Kuletz 1998: 7). … The mining and power companies’ lack of recognition of these impacts on the native communities literally adds insult to injury. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 236

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete example operationalizing recognition injustice against sacred land — the very vocab the reader wants to extract.
• XREF: Connects to earlier claims that unwelcome risk exposure is denial of recognition (ch55) and ties to Soundscape course’s EJ litigation gap analysis. Also echoes the ADDENDUM ‘Grafting & Growth’ theme of land-as-sacred vs. extractable. — connects to: Environmental degradation of a place is experienced as an attack on community identity — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 232; Environmental defenders’ erasure of indigenous peoples constitutes a recognition injustice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 304; Indigenous movements frame environmental injustice primarily as misrecognition, not inequity — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 305 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Environmental defenders’ erasure of indigenous peoples constitutes a recognition injustice #corroborates (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 304
• Colonial monument restoration drained sacred sites of living religious use #exemplifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 674
• Indigenous movements frame environmental injustice primarily as misrecognition, not inequity #corroborates (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 305
• Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution #expands (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 12
• Colonial megafauna conservation displaced people while ignoring subsistence land degradation #exemplifies (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 391