What do you think are some advantages and disadvantages to laws, policies, courts, and regulation (the state) in addressing environmental justice. Discuss what this might mean for seeking environmental and climate justice through state action or holding corporations accountable?
How do the state's official understandings of race, gender, political economy (capitalism), environment, and Indigeneity shape possibilities for environmental justice? What do you think it might look like to make abolition democracy given these circumstances?
Discuss how the notion of "indispensibility" operates through broad notions of environment. How might a spatio-temporal analysis of justice through this lens present new opportunities for resistance.
a. Expanding on Pellow's case study of CEJ through the PIC and prison abolition, how do you think policing and criminalization might similarly produce group differentiated environmental vulnerabilities to premature death? Consider it at scales from the body to neighborhood to country?
b. Ruthie Gilmore argues that "abolition geography starts from the homely premise that freedom is a place." How might this relate to prisons, policing, and criminalization as environmental relations.
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