The “Environmental Justice” Frame: A Conceptual Discussion and an Application
The “Environmental Justice” Frame: A Conceptual Discussion and an Application
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“环境正义”框架：概念探讨与应用
DOI：
10.2307/3097023
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发表时间：
1993
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Stella M. Čapek
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作者：
Stella M. Čapek
借鉴社会建构主义的观点，本文：(1)确定了“环境正义”框架的一些最突出的维度，因为它已经出现在美国当地社区对有毒污染的斗争中；(2)提供了这一概念在德克萨斯州特克萨卡纳卡佛露台附近的特定污染社区的出现和应用的实证说明。Carver Terrace是一个主要由房主组成的非裔美国人社区，在1984年被宣布为超级基金遗址后，最近组织起来争取获得联邦政府的买断和搬迁。通过案例研究，本文认为，居民动员社会变革的能力与他们采用“环境正义”框架密切相关。环境正义的概念讨论和案例研究的目的是澄清在大众和学术话语中使用频率越来越高和一些模糊的术语的含义。本文记录了在地方社区和国家层面的抗毒运动之间的相互作用中构建环境正义框架的过程。
Drawing on a social constructionist perspective, this paper: (1) identifies some of the most salient dimensions of the “environmental justice” frame as it has emerged from local community struggles over toxic contamination in the United States; and (2) provides an empirical illustration of the emergence and application of this concept in a particular contaminated community, the Carver Terrace neighborhood of Texarkana, Texas. Carver Terrace, an African-American community consisting mostly of homeowners, recently organized to win a federal buyout and relocation after being declared a Superfund site in 1984. Using case study evidence, the paper argues that the residents' ability to mobilize for social change was intimately linked to their adoption of an “environmental justice” frame. The intent of the conceptual discussion of environmental justice and the case study is to clarify the meaning of a term used with increasing frequency and some ambiguity in both popular and academic discourses. This paper documents the process by which the environmental justice frame is constructed in an interplay between the local community and national levels of the antitoxics movement.