Ways of life are threatened because they are devalued, an issue of recognition

Evidence

In these cases, as articulated by these environmental justice movements, one major step toward justice is through recognition. The basic argument is that ways of life are being threatened simply because they are not recognized and are devalued as ways of life. That is an issue of recognition, not simply equity. In addition, and as with the discussion of equity, it is crucial to understand that this discourse of recognition, as I have laid out above, is applied not solely to individuals, but to communities as well. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 309

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the early chapters distinguishing recognition from equity; this applies that distinction to global EJ movements. — connects to: Awareness of mortality drives people to defend cultural worldviews that give life meaning. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1488; Threats to a person’s ingroup are experienced as threats to the self itself — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 338; Individual identity resists destruction because it depends on nature beyond the will (+1 more)
• SHARE: The compact statement ‘ways of life threatened simply because they are not recognized and devalued’ is a crisp formulation worth quoting for the justice-typology handout.

Broader Connections

• Awareness of mortality drives people to defend cultural worldviews that give life meaning. #expands (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1488
• Feminist reform of others’ lifeworlds risks destroying forms it fails to comprehend #expands (0.78) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1304
• Threats to a person’s ingroup are experienced as threats to the self itself #expands (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 338
• Individual identity resists destruction because it depends on nature beyond the will #complicates (0.72)