Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives
Boston University · University of Sussex · +5 more institutions
Abstract
Justice represents not only a moral obligation but can enhance the legitimacy and acceptance of a rapid push toward global decarbonization. Innovations in technology, even those geared toward sustainability, can both reinforce and introduce new inequalities and disparities across populations, while also perpetuating environmental degradation. The concept of energy justice has emerged as a conceptual, methodological, and empirical tool to both highlight and remediate many of these concerns, with an emphasis on what is morally just or right. But much of this body of scholarship fails to adequately account for gender, Indigeneity, race, and other intersecting inequalities. Feminist, Indigenous, anti-racist and…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 14.41
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- 100%
- References
- 112
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9Topics & keywords
- Scholarship
- Indigenous
- Environmental ethics
- Sociology
- Economic Justice
- Obligation
- Environmental justice
- Legitimacy