Environmental injustice closely tied to gender violence, new UNM paper argues
March 21, 2023 - Carly Bowling
Environmental justice and gender violence may seem like separate issues, but a new paper from a University of New Mexico professor argues the two are closely linked.
Miriam Gay-Antaki, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, recently published “Embodied geographies of environmental justice: Toward the sovereign right to wholly inhabit oneself” in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. The paper draws on her field work investigating environmental interventions in Mexico and the global South.
The paper explores the connection between two traditionally separate areas of scholarship — environmental justice and reproductive justice — in a critique of capitalism’s damaging impact on environments and the people and cultures who live in them. When a community’s land is threatened, be it by air pollution, climate disasters or gentrification, the group has also experienced reproductive injustice, because their collective ability to envision a positive future has been threatened.
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