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SUMMARY:Mapping Environmental Injustice With The Ejatlas: Tool Or Trap?
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dalitso Materechera (University of Johannesburg)\nEn
 vironmental justice (EJ) is sought by the poor\, or working class\, often 
 of ethnic/marginal communities who have been disproportionately affected b
 y the negative consequences of environmental degradation. Originating in A
 merican activism against ‘environmental racism’ in the 1970s and 1980s
 \, academics (especially political ecologists\, ecological economists\, an
 d environmental sociologists) have long focused analysis on the topic of E
 J in the West. More recently\, however\, scholars have begun to document t
 he evolution of a global environmental justice movement\, comprised of bot
 h activists and researchers engaged in the work of linking protest with th
 eory. Indeed in the South African (SA) context\, evidence points to a burg
 eoning of EJ activism\, as local communities engage in urgent\, high stake
 s struggles to defend their access to non-market environmental resources a
 nd services upon which livelihoods depend\, against contamination and/or e
 ncroachment by market and state forces. This paper examines a range of Sou
 th African EJ struggles\, drawing from a recently developed interactive ma
 p of environmental conflicts. It argues that online platforms such as the 
 EJAtlas offer a valuable means by which environmental justice organisation
 s (EJOs) can leverage “network effects”\, thereby increasing possibili
 ties for achieving organisational goals."\n\nhttps://events.saip.org.za/ev
 ent/171/contributions/2068/
LOCATION:School of Tourism and Hospitality
URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/171/contributions/2068/
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