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- Title
Marrying Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: The Rising Voices of Dissent in American Environmentalism.
- Authors
Bakari, Mohamed E.
- Abstract
In light of multiple significant incidents in its contemporary history, the American environmental movement (EM) seems to be at a crossroads as the national consensus on this movement-forged during the 1970s-starts to crack under the strain of rising challenges. Communities most adversely affected by environmental hazards-usually referred to as communities of color and labor-now seem to be estranged from and ignored by a mostly ecocentric movement they can hardly identify with. Against such a backdrop,! examine the emergence of new dissenting 'anthropocentric' voices within the American EM-most notably the Environmental Justice Movement (EJM)- and discuss the multiple facets of the anthropocentric-ecocentric divide and its bearing on the evolution of the movement. I will further analyze whether the emerging sustainability discourse will be able to contain this ideological divide and offer a reconciliation framework for a harmonization of these movements' objectives, policies, and modes of activism.
- Subjects
ANTHROPOCENTRISM; ECOCENTRISM; ENVIRONMENTALISM; SOCIAL movements; CONSERVATIONISTS
- Publication
American Studies Journal, 2019, Issue 66, p1
- ISSN
1433-5239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18422/66-01.