Critical environmental justice and the state: a critique of pellow

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dc.contributor.authorPurucker, David
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-20T18:37:40Z
dc.date.available2021-09-20T18:37:40Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.description12 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractHow should movements for environmental justice orient themselves towards the state? Recent work in the environmental justice field critiques the legalistic basis of both environmental justice research and movement strategy based in juridical action, regulation, and advocacy within state institutions. Meanwhile, rightward-moving politics in the United States threatens to choke off even this limited strategy. Scholars have responded by urging movements to adopt a more skeptical strategic posture towards the state, one informed by an anarchist conception of states as uniformly repressive structures. This essay addresses the most systematic attempt at re-theorizing the state for these movements, David Pellow’s What is Critical Environmental Justice? While Pellow’s work to integrate intersectionality theory into environmental sociology has been recognized, less attention has been paid to his anarchist state theory, which implies an untenable strategy of movement withdrawal from politics. Environmental justice movements and scholarship need a state theory that allows for the possibility of action both against and within states. I introduce an alternative, ‘strategic-relational’ view of states, and suggest that changing structural patterns of environmental injustice will require re-thinking both the state and the ‘movement’ of environmental justice, as they are conventionally imagined.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPurucker, David. 2021. “Critical Environmental Justice and the State: A Critique of Pellow.” Environmental Sociology 7(3):176–86. doi: 10.1080/23251042.2021.1878575.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26733
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2021.1878575
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental justiceen_US
dc.subjectstate theoryen_US
dc.subjectstrategyen_US
dc.subjectsocial movementsen_US
dc.subjectanarchismen_US
dc.titleCritical environmental justice and the state: a critique of pellowen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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