Environmental justice unites material and postmaterial demands within one political movement.

Evidence

In this, I would argue that the movement demonstrates that it is, indeed, possible to incorporate both material and postmaterial demands in a single and comprehensive political movement. As Pulido has noted, environmental justice offers ‘a positive example of how postmodern identity politics can be linked to concrete material struggle’ (1996: xvii). The project of environmental justice goes much further, however, combining elements of economic and quality of life issues, along with identity politics, within a context of a struggle for political participation and the functioning of communities. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 272

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier argument that movement definitions of justice extend past distributive accounts and that founding EJ principles integrated justice dimensions — this is the synthesis claim closing the US-based analysis. — connects to: Recognition and participation demands usually coexist with, not replace, equity claims in movements — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 166; EJ discourse simultaneously spans distribution, recognition, participation, and capability. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 270; A borrowed, hybridized environmental-justice discourse forges South-South and South-North alliances. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 102 (+4 more)
• SEED: Angle for an essay on how the EJ movement empirically refutes the academic either/or framing that pits material redistribution against identity politics.

Broader Connections

• The environmental movement succeeded by uniting diverse stakeholders across class lines. #expands (0.85) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 218
• Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution #expands (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 12
• Global environmental justice movements define justice as distribution plus recognition, participation, and capabilities. #expands (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 276
• Joint action toward material change builds solidarity that words alone cannot #exemplifies (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1085