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Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice by Whyte, Kyle

“…Settler colonialism is a form of domination that violently disrupts human relationships with the environment. Settler colonialism is ecological domination,…”
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Unbuilt and Unfinished: The Temporalities of Infrastructure by Carse, Ashley, Kneas, David

“…Infrastructures have proven to be useful focal points for understanding social phenomena. The projects of concern in this literature are often considered…”
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Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines by Spice, Anne

“…In the settler colonial context of so-called Canada, oil and gas projects are contemporary infrastructures of invasion. This article tracks how the state…”
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Mino-Mnaamodzawin: Achieving Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada by McGregor, Deborah

“…This article explores the potential for advancing environmental justice (EJ) theory and practice through engaging with Indigenous intellectual traditions. When…”
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Animals, Plants, People, and Things: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography by Ogden, Laura A., Hall, Billy, Tanita, Kimiko

“…This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy,…”
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Black Geographies and Black Ecologies as Insurgent Ecocriticism by Moulton, Alex A, Salo, Inge

“…Black geographies and Black ecologies are epistemological frameworks that attend to the ideological, philosophical, and material portent of Black movements in…”
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Decolonizing Development in Diné Bikeyah: Resource Extraction, Anti-Capitalism, and Relational Futures by Yazzie, Melanie K.

“…In this article, I examine the anti-capitalist and antidevelopment politics that Diné resisters espouse in their critiques of resource extraction in the Navajo…”
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We All We Got: Urban Black Ecologies of Care and Mutual Aid by Reese, Ashanté M., Johnson, Symone A.

“…Urban ecologies are fraught with inequities, often resulting in humanitarian or charity solutions that emphasize lack rather than communities’…”
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Indigenous Fire Futures: Anticolonial Approaches to Shifting Fire Relations in California by Martinez, Deniss J, Seraphin, Bruno, Marks-Block, Tony, Nelson, Peter, Vinyeta, Kirsten

“…Abstract Dominant causal explanations of the wildfire threat in California include anthropogenic climate change, fire suppression, industrial logging, and the…”
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Unsettling the Land: Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity in Settler Colonialism by Burow, Paul Berne, Brock, Samara, Dove, Michael R.

“…This article examines different ontologies of land in settler colonialism and Indigenous movements for decolonization and environmental justice. Settler…”
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Toxic Waste and Race in Twenty-First Century America: Neighborhood Poverty and Racial Composition in the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities by Mascarenhas, Michael, Grattet, Ryken, Mege, Kathleen

“…In 1987, the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice released its groundbreaking study, Toxic Waste and Race in the United States. The report…”
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Mega-Plantations in Southeast Asia: Landscapes of Displacement by Kenney-Lazar, Miles, Ishikawa, Noboru

“…This article reviews a wide body of literature on the emergence and expansion of agro-industrial, monoculture plantations across Southeast Asia through the…”
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The Social Life of the "Forever Chemical": PFAS Pollution Legacies and Toxic Events by Renfrew, Daniel, Pearson, Thomas W.

“…This article examines the social life of PFAS contamination (a class of several thousand synthetic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and maps the growing…”
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Contradictions of Solidarity: Whiteness, Settler Coloniality, and the Mainstream Environmental Movement by Curnow, Joe, Helferty, Anjali

“…In this article, we trace the racialized history of the environmental movement in the United States and Canada that has defined the mainstream movement as a…”
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Black as Drought: Arid Landscapes and Ecologies of Encounter across the African Diaspora by Meché, Brittany

“…In the poem “ca’line’s prayer,” Lucille Clift on marks the progression of Black generational memory through the metaphor of drought. The poem’s 1969…”
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Food Sovereignty: A New Rights Framework for Food and Nature? by Wittman, Hannah

“…Food sovereignty, as a critical alternative to the concept of food security, is broadly defined as the right of local peoples to control their own food…”
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Hunting for Justice: An Indigenous Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation by Eichler, Lauren, Baumeister, David

“…Within the mainstream environmental movement, regulated hunting is commonly defended as a tool for preserving and managing populations of wild animals for…”
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Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance: From UNCLOS to Sustainable Development Goal 14 by Spalding, Ana K., de Ycaza, Ricardo

“…Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the diversity of ocean uses and threats, leading to the Anthropocene ocean: a place fraught with challenges for…”
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Toxic Sensorium: Agrochemicals in the African Anthropocene by Stein, Serena, Luna, Jessie

“…Pesticides and toxicity are constitutive features of modernization in Africa, despite ongoing portrayals of the continent as "too poor to pollute." This…”
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Who to Call after the Storm?: The Challenge of Flooding due to Climate Change for Fruit and Vegetable Growers in the Northeast United States by Delaney, Sara

“…Abstract Precipitation has increased across most of the United States over the last century. The Northeast region has seen the largest increase of ∼15 percent,…”
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