Environmental justice groups pursue community functioning beyond distributional equality

Evidence

More recently, Faber and McCarthy (2003: 58) note that the most important part of environmental justice activism is building community and community capacity, and facilitating community empowerment. Di Chiro (2008) discusses the focus on ‘social reproduction’ in the movement. Prindeville’s interviews with activists illustrate that they are mobilized to political action by a desire to empower their communities and preserve their cultures, in addition to achieving distributional equality (2004: 93). The overall emphasis of environmental justice groups is on community functioning—including the basics of health, safety, and well-being, along with equality, recognition, and participation. Environmental justice activists work to achieve economic equity, social justice, and environmental quality for their communities. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 258

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s stated purpose: gives empirical backing for the full trivalent/quadrivalent justice vocabulary (functioning plus recognition and participation) to apply across Legal Systems and Eco-Justice readings. — connects to: Founding environmental justice definitions center community capacity and functioning — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 257; Distribution remains the most cited dimension of environmental justice despite broader definitions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 207; Distributive environmental justice requires equal treatment across race, class, and education. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 211 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Global environmental justice movements define justice as distribution plus recognition, participation, and capabilities. #qualifies (0.82) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 276
• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #qualifies (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298
• Environmental justice movements are the natural testbed for agonistic pluralist ideals #expands (0.78) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 630