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The environment is increasingly seen as a meta-injustice or master frame of the politics of the new century. If this is indeed the case, environmental concerns should transcend national and organizational boundaries and should have a discursive claims-making space of their own. Research on environmental advocacy, however, shows that many claims for environmental justice are rooted in specific locales and advocacy is often mediated through, and at times overshadowed by, other dimensions of power. Using Nancy Fraser's conception of dimensions of justice, and a Bourdieusian inspired field approach, this paper maps Greenpeace and Sierra Club's press advocacy between 2006 and 2010. In doing so, the paper identifies environmental advocacy spaces and argues that non-parametric approaches to analysing ENGO media advocacy are needed to explain the complexity of multi-scaled political contexts.

La Revue canadienne de sociologie a été un forum important pour la recherche sur l'ethnicité et la race. Grâce à une analyse des publications publiés dans la revue entre 1964 et 2010 nous constatons que l'ethnicité a reçu plus d'attention que la race, et que la majorité des publications se sert d'une approche d'économie politique et des méthodes quantitatives. Au fil du temps, nous relevons l'abandon du concept d'ethnicité et la montée de la race et nous relevons moins d'études quantitatives. Ces changements ont lieu en parallèle avec des changements politiques et démographiques au Canada et sont en réponse aux iniquités raciales.The Canadian Review of Sociology has been an important venue for scholarship on ethnicity and race. Through an analysis of publications dealing with both terms in the journal, between 1964 and 2010, the paper finds that publications have focused more on ethnicity than race, using a political economy approach, and quantitative methods. Over time, significant changes have occurred, including a move away from ethnicity to race and a move away from quantitative methods. Many of these changes have occurred in conjunction with policy and demographic changes in Canada and as a response to ongoing racial inequities.