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- Title
MAKING ROOM FOR POLICY RESEARCH IN EJ MOVEMENT: SOME ONTOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESEARCH.
- Authors
Morgan Chih-Tung Huang
- Abstract
In the US, the understanding of environmental justice (EJ) is largely dominated by an empiricist view. This article reviews this view through an ontological lens. It argues that empiricists did provide a systematic way of understanding EJ; nevertheless, their promotion of the movement as policy and science later hindered the progress of EJ, because recent scientific debates were taken out of their social contexts. With a detailed analysis and some ontological reflections, this article further argues that once EJ is institutionalized, its understanding begins with a re-conceptualization. It is therefore critical to have a sustained dialogue between movement studies and policy research.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; ENVIRONMENTAL justice; ONTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; RADIOACTIVE wastes; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on environmental justice
- Publication
Environmental Research Journal, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 4, p399
- ISSN
1935-3049
- Publication type
Article