Author: Kurtz, Hilda

Source: Space and Polity, Volume 9, Number 1, April 2005 , pp. 77-91(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

This paper explores the way in which multiple discourses of citizenship inflect environmental justice activism. A case study of a siting conflict in St James Parish, Louisiana (US) highlights that different citizen subjectivities and socio-spatial relations are imagined within alternative traditions of citizenship. The paper works through several moments in the St James controversy to illustrate the implications of each of these traditions for struggle over environmental justice. It is argued that in borrowing from both liberal and communitarian traditions, the activists at the centre of this case were fostering a hybridised conception of citizenship that helped them to negotiate the spatial tensions inherent in the idea of environmental justice.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562570500078758

Affiliations: 1: Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Geography/Geology Building, Athens, Georgia, 30602–2502, USA, 706-542-2388

Publication date: 2005-04-01

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