Recognizing and Eradicating Racism in Environmental Commons: The Environmental Justice Movement, White Privilege and Commons Scholarship

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Wu, Diana Pei; Turner, Robin Lanette
Conference:	The Commons in an Age of Global Transition: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities, the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Oaxaca, Mexico
Conf. Date:	August 9-13
Date:	2004
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1210
Sector:	Social Organization
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Subject(s):	IASC racism common pool resources property rights environmentalism
Abstract:	From the Introduction: "In this paper, we seek to bring together common property theory and scholarship on the construction of race and white privilege. Our work is inspired by our engagement with the Environmental Justice movement as researchers and activists. The environmental justice (EJ) movement (and politicized EJ scholarship) has made the radcialization of environmental commons visible and challenged its legitimacy. In so doing, this movement can help us to critically engage with commons, both environmental and otherwise, and can enrich our theorization of racism."

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