Environmental inequality is a sociohistorical process spanning production and consumption

Evidence

Pellow demands we understand environmental inequality as a sociohistorical process, one that involves multiple stakeholder groups with contradictory and conflicting interests and allegiances. In this, he wants to examine environmental justice through a life-cycle analysis of production and consumption (and disposal). — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 202

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the life-cycle framework as an analytic method for environmental justice, distinct from discrete siting-event accounts.
• XREF: The life-cycle framing pairs with distributive/siting analyses in the Environmental Racism chapter and with Soundscape questions about who bears production’s externalities. — connects to: Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 175; Understanding material disparities requires tracing historical inferiorizing discourses — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1240

Broader Connections

• Understanding material disparities requires tracing historical inferiorizing discourses #expands (0.78) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1240