Maniates, Michael, and John M. Meyer, eds. 2010. The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
In: Global environmental politics, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 127-129
ISSN: 1536-0091
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In: Global environmental politics, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 127-129
ISSN: 1536-0091
In: Global environmental politics, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 144-145
ISSN: 1536-0091
In: Global environmental politics, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 144-145
ISSN: 1526-3800
In: Review of international political economy, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 340-358
ISSN: 1466-4526
In: Global environmental politics, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 114-116
ISSN: 1536-0091
In: Environmental politics, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 565-567
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Global environmental politics, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 114-116
ISSN: 1526-3800
In: Global environmental politics, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 76-107
ISSN: 1536-0091
In the 21st century, technology and material flows constitute an ever-growing set of global environmental change. In particular, electronic wastes are emerging as a major transnational problem. Industrial nations are shipping millions of obsolete computers to Asia yearly; Asian countries are emerging as generators of e-waste in their own right. This article argues that an environmental justice approach can help illuminate the impacts of technology and material flows. To do so, however, environmental justice definitions and methodologies need to account for how and why such flows occur. Using the case of computers, the article analyses some factors shaping the e-waste recycling chain, shows how e-waste risks depend on design and manufacturing chains, and evaluates inequalities in the ecological and health impacts of e-wastes across Asia. It proposes a definition of environmental justice as obviating the production of risk, using a framework that brings together the global production system, development models, and regulatory action.
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 127-138
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Global environmental politics, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 76-107
ISSN: 1526-3800
In the 21st century, technology & material flows constitute an ever-growing set of global environmental change. In particular, electronic wastes are emerging as a major transnational problem. Industrial nations are shipping millions of obsolete computers to Asia yearly; Asian countries are emerging as generators of e-waste in their own right. This article argues that an environmental justice approach can help illuminate the impacts of technology & material flows. To do so, however, environmental justice definitions & methodologies need to account for how & why such flows occur. Using the case of computers, the article analyzes some factors shaping the e-waste recycling chain, shows how e-waste risks depend on design & manufacturing chains, & evaluates inequalities in the ecological & health impacts of e-wastes across Asia. It proposes a definition of environmental justice as obviating the production of risk, using a framework that brings together the global production system, development models, & regulatory action. 74 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Science & public policy: SPP ; journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 127-138
ISSN: 0302-3427, 0036-8245
In: Harvard international law journal, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 207
ISSN: 0017-8063
In: Health and Human Rights, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 46
People in contemporary industrial societies encounter countless novel materials that did not exist previously, many of which present risks to health and environment. In this article, we build on the concept of "materials sovereignty" as the right of people to use and be surrounded by environmentally benign, non-toxic, and renewing materials in their everyday lives. As a rights-based approach, materials sovereignty may help change the politics of governing materials. We suggest that social movements that explicitly base interventions into design on materials sovereignty may be better able to gain traction in changing industrial production. We consider the case of nanotechnology as a particularly challenging field for social movement intervention. We review several pathways that have been used by social movement organizations in attempts to influence the development of nanomaterials, but which have met with limited success. We more closely examine three participatory pathways through which social movements could intervene more directly into material design: participatory technology assessment, collaboration with industry, and co-design. We identify three key elements of materials sovereignty: participatory knowledge systems, which create multi-directional flows of knowledge and agency; the embedding of citizen voices into design processes; and building accountability systems. Of the pathways we examine here, co-design appears to be the most promising from a theoretical and ethical perspective, but there remain significant institutional and organizational challenges for bringing it into practice.
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People in contemporary industrial societies encounter countless novel materials that did not exist previously, many of which present risks to health and environment. In this article, we build on the concept of "materials sovereignty" as the right of people to use and be surrounded by environmentally benign, non-toxic, and renewing materials in their everyday lives. As a rights-based approach, materials sovereignty may help change the politics of governing materials. We suggest that social movements that explicitly base interventions into design on materials sovereignty may be better able to gain traction in changing industrial production. We consider the case of nanotechnology as a particularly challenging field for social movement intervention. We review several pathways that have been used by social movement organizations in attempts to influence the development of nanomaterials, but which have met with limited success. We more closely examine three participatory pathways through which social movements could intervene more directly into material design: participatory technology assessment, collaboration with industry, and co-design. We identify three key elements of materials sovereignty: participatory knowledge systems, which create multi-directional flows of knowledge and agency; the embedding of citizen voices into design processes; and building accountability systems. Of the pathways we examine here, co-design appears to be the most promising from a theoretical and ethical perspective, but there remain significant institutional and organizational challenges for bringing it into practice.
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