Social movements arise from lived disrespect, disempowerment, and capability destruction.

Evidence

The argument here is that there is a relationship between the everyday experience of disrespect, disempowerment, economic debilitation, and the decimation of individual and community capabilities and the emergence of social movements such as civil rights, indigenous rights, gay and lesbian rights, feminism, postcolonialism, and the more general movements for multicultural acceptance. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 167

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Misrecognition creates structural obstacles that block political participation — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 239