Notes toward an anticolonial environmental sociology of race. Issue 2 (3rd April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murphy, Michael Warren
• Is Part Of: Environmental sociology. Volume 7:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 122
• Page End: 133
• Publication Date: 2021-04-03
• Subjects: race -- colonialism -- violence -- anticolonialism -- environment; Environmental sociology -- Periodicals; 363.7
• DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2020.1862979
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2325-1042

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay contributes to an ever-growing chorus of scholars calling for renewed attention to the dynamics of race and environment by introducing the need for and basic features of an anticolonial environmental sociology. I argue that when it comes to matters of race, environmental sociologists often inherit ontological assumptions that obfuscate the entanglement of racialization and colonial domination, thereby limiting the preoccupations of the field. In contrast, in this essay, I gesture toward an anticolonial environmental sociology that situates considerations of race and environment within the broader context of European conquest, whereby the socioecological significance of whiteness is better apprehended by engaging with the experiences and perspectives of Black and Indigenous people in the North American context.