| dc.creator |
Brock, Andrea |
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| dc.creator |
Stephens-Griffin, Nathan |
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| dc.date |
2021-10-29T09:30:57Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-10-29T09:30:57Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-10-28 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-26T08:49:41Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-26T08:49:41Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Brock, A. and Stephens-Griffin, N. (2021) Policing Environmental Injustice, IDS Bulletin, Online First, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2021.130 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16915 |
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| dc.identifier |
10.19088/1968-2021.130 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198720 |
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| dc.description |
Environmental justice (EJ) activists have long worked
with abolitionists in their communities, critiquing the ways policing,
prisons, and pollution are entangled and racially constituted
(Braz and Gilmore 2006). Yet, much EJ scholarship reflects a liberal
Western focus on a more equal distribution of harms, rather than
challenging the underlying systems of exploitation these harms
rest upon (Álvarez and Coolsaet 2020). This article argues that
policing facilitates environmentally unjust developments that are
inherently harmful to nature and society. Policing helps enforce
a social order rooted in the ‘securing’ of property, hierarchy, and
human-nature exploitation. Examining the colonial continuities of
policing, we argue that EJ must challenge the assumed necessity
of policing, overcome the mythology of the state as ‘arbiter of
justice’, and work to create social conditions in which policing is
unnecessary. This will help open space to question other related
harmful hegemonic principles. Policing drives environmental
injustice, so EJ must embrace abolition. |
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| dc.description |
Institute of Development Studies |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Institute of Development Studies |
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| dc.relation |
IDS Bulletin Online First; |
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| dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
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| dc.rights |
Institute of Development Studies |
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| dc.title |
Policing Environmental Injustice |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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