Environmental justice movement misrecognition operates at both personal and community levels.

Evidence

This question of recognition is discussed in the movement both at the personal level and at the level of community; misrecognition is experienced in both realms. The more personal side comes up in numerous activist testimonials. Cora Tucker, an African-American activist, discussed her reaction at a town board meeting, when white women were addressed as ‘Mrs. So and So’, while she was addressed simply as ‘Cora’ by the allwhite, all-male board: ‘I said, “What did you call me?” He said, “Cora”, and I said, “The name is Mrs. Tucker’ and I had the floor until he said “Mrs. Tucker”… . It’s not that—I mean it’s not like you’ve got to call me Mrs. Tucker, but it was the respect’ (quoted in Krauss 1994: 267). Lois Gibbs (1982), of the CHEJ, tells a similar story of a public hearing in which representatives appeared not to be listening to her testimony. She stopped speaking, and when the hearing official finally noticed the silence and asked if she was through, simply said that she was just waiting until someone was listening. Gibbs then continued her testimony. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 227

Categorization

• DEFINE: These concrete testimonials operationalize the definition of misrecognition as lived disrespect in deliberative settings.
• ADDENDUM: Tucker’s refusal of the familiar ‘Cora’ and Gibbs’s silence-until-listened echo the respect/attention dynamics of the dress-and-decorum and listening themes.
• SEED: The title-form-of-address demand as a recognition-jutstice ritual is a vivid case of small decorum acts carrying justice weight.
• XREF: connects to: Unwanted environmental risk exposure constitutes a denial of recognition — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 223; Misrecognition of identities drives environmental justice groups to demand recognition. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 226; Misrecognition is a cultural and institutional injustice rooted in representation and communication. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 67 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298
• Misrecognition and political exclusion structurally block poor communities’ participation in environmental decisions #corroborates (0.82) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 248
• Group misrecognition produces distributive injustice through social structures and institutions. #expands (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 64
• Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution #expands (0.78) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 12
• Collective identity and dignified recognition define social movements like environmental justice #corroborates (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 229