scholarly journals Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Milbourne ◽  
Kelvin Mason
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Opencast Mining ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
South Wales

In this article we use a case study of opencast coal mining in the southern valleys of Wales to explore the ordinary and everyday spatialities of environmental injustice. Responding to recent geographical critiques of environmental justice research and engaging with post-colonial studies of landscape and environment, we provide an account of environmental injustice that emphasises competing geographical imaginaries of landscape and ‘ordinary political injustices’ within everyday spaces. We begin with a discussion of how historical environmental injustices in Wales have been framed within nationalist politics as a form of colonial exploitation of the country’s natural resources. We then make use of materials from recent research on opencast mining in South Wales to examine local understandings of and everyday encounters with mining, highlighting contradictory discourses of opencast mining, landscape and place, and the injustices associated with mining developments in this region.

scholarly journals Environmental Justice in Intra Generations: An Overview of Aristotle's Distributive Justice to Coal Mining

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Yovi Cajapa Endyka ◽  
Muhamad Muhdar ◽  
Abdul Kadir Sabaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Iron Ore ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Current Generation

Indonesia is a country with abundant natural resources, ranging from sand. Tin, copper, coal, iron ore to gold. Therefore, the State should provide environmental justice to create reserves with wise and sustainable management of natural resources. This study uses a doctrinal method in order to answer the problem under study. This study will examine how Aristotle's distributive justice can sharpen the concept of justice for coal mining management. This study will focus on environmental justice in intra-generational terms in terms of Aristotle's distributive justice to coal mining. Protection of access (conservation of access) reflects the allocation of rights and access to natural resources balanced between different generations and fellow members of the current generation. Thus, access to protection provides fair and non-discriminatory rights for every citizen of the current generation to use environmental resources. However, in using these resources, each member of the current generation has an obligation (equitable duties) to ensure that his actions will not reduce future generations' access to these resources. The state through mining or environmental policies has not provided justice for the community, where the community accepts more risks such as social injustice, environmental and health harm from coal mining activities than receiving the benefits.

Natural Resources and Environmental Justice

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Justice Research

Environmental management involves making decisions about the governance of natural resources such as water, minerals or land, which are inherently decisions about what is just or fair. Yet, there is little emphasis on justice in environmental management research or practical guidance on how to achieve fairness and equity in environmental governance and public policy. This results in social dilemmas that are significant issues for government, business and community agendas, causing conflict between different community interests. Natural Resources and Environmental Justice provides the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of justice research in Australian environmental management, identifying best practice and current knowledge gaps. With chapters written by experts in environmental and social sciences, law and economics, this book covers topical issues, including coal seam gas, desalination plants, community relations in mining, forestry negotiations, sea-level rise and animal rights. It also proposes a social justice framework and an agenda for future justice research in environmental management. These important environmental issues are covered from an Australian perspective and the book will be of broad use to policy makers, researchers and managers in natural resource management and governance, environmental law, social impact and related fields both in Australia and abroad.

scholarly journals Greenlanders Seen Through the Eyes of Signe Rink

Nordlit ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Karen Langgård
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
The 19Th Century

Signe Rink (1836-1909) published four volumes of fiction in Danish, all of them stories from Greenland of the 19th century: Grønlændere. 1886 (155 pages); Grønlændere og Danske i Grønland. 1887 (204 pages); Koloni-idyler. 1888 (262 pages) and Fra det Grønland som gik. Et par Tidsbilleder fra Trediverne. 1902 (264 pages). Some of the stories are short, some are not short at all, actually, e.g. Rink 1902 consists only of two parts, the first one 205 pages long. The focus here will be on this fiction written by Signe Rink: a case study in how genres of fiction might open up for the possibility of going beyond the dominant discourse and for instance throw light at the role played by Greenlanders in colonial Greenland of the 19th century, and how it might be possible now a century later to disentangle the threads of different discourses, through reflectiveresearch - drawing on historical studies, anthropology, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.

scholarly journals Environmental justice a way forward the deconstruction of property rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alma Rocío Segoviano-Basurto
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Current System ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Incremental Increase

Conflicts over natural resources are already among the greatest challenges of the century. The incremental increase of natural disasters due to environmental injustice is intensifying the uncertainty of life. Currently, more people are being forced to leave their homes as a form of adaptation and survival because of climate change. The global extraction of resources, generally located in territories of indigenous and impoverished populations, provokes their eviction and exacerbates marginalization. A person who owns land and resources may find reasonable to defend the current institution of property right as it is. However, the current system of property rights promotes competition and exclusion for the access to natural resources. This essay is a reflection on why Environmental Justice’s call against racism, is also a call to reconsider the current patterns of consumption, the perception of property rights, and progress. Sustainable Development cannot be achieved if is meant to be only for some.

Towards a post-colonial artefact analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Van Oyen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Colonial Archaeology ◽  
Change Of Perspective ◽  
The One

AbstractThis paper argues that material culture should be brought even more to the forefront in post-colonial archaeology. At present, post-colonial analyses start from a baseline of pinned-down, delineated things as processed through artefact analysis, to proceed to interpretations of how these things were used in fluid, multidirectional, ambivalent social and cultural interactions. But what if thingsthemselvescan be fluid rather than bounded? Can we look into the various ways in which things were defined in the past, and the various relations they enabled? Such a change of perspective can also help redress the imbalance within post-colonial studies between, on the one hand, consumption as the field in which meaning is negotiated and, on the other hand, production as offering merely a template for the inscription of that meaning. A case study of so-called pre-sigillata production in southern Gaul articulates the benefit to be gained from considering these issues.

Kelembagaan Masyarakat dan Struktur Agraria serta Keberlanjutan Sumberdaya Alam di Kawasan Capa

Agrotek ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mecky Sagrim
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Group Property ◽  
Young Shoot ◽  
Agrarian Structure

Aim of the research as follows: (1) inquisitive about variation of laws in regulating agrarian resources use, (2) function of traditional law in regulation at used of natural resources and related with existence on natural preservation-in formal law, and (3) inquiring influence outsider intervention to local institutions with the agrarian structure and relationship between expectation agrarian conflict. The unity of the study is Arfak community-as much as local community- was that administrative limited seatle in certain locations around natural preservation area of the Arfak Mountain. The trategy of the research is case study, while analysis of the data with qualitative manner. Result of the research is in the locations study beside property right of local community and movement of Arfak community from high land include at the resettlement programme. Not a problem related with economic subsistence with economic un-security because group property right community give free to the movement community for use to agriculture developing. For developing concept of forest sustainable as nit side to one side, income several NGO as well as role as institution relationship (young-shoot autonomy) for accommodation importance various party supra-village in relationship with existence natural preservation area of the Arfak Mountain and the party of local community in related of security in economic subsistence.

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