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📢New publication: "Globalization of Environmental Justice: A Framework for Comparative Research," which compares Indigenous Peoples' struggles in the United States & India. @OUPAcademic Handbook of Comparative Env Politics Ed. by Jeannie Sowers, @StacyDVanDeveer & Erika Weinthal

I build on the @Ostrom_Workshop IAD framework to compare the struggles of Apache activists opposed to proposed copper mining in Oak Flats (Tonto National Forest, Arizona) w/ the resistance of state-led mining in central India by Gond Indigenous Adivasis. #IndigenousPeoples 2/n

How do Indigenous Peoples' struggles in different sociopolitical & institutional context differ from one another? What can we learning from studying these movements comparatively? I adopt a comparative contextualization approach to broach the type of Qs that come up freqntly 3/n

First half of the chapter offers a synthetic review of the insights we gain from the U.S. environmental justice movement, which has gained strengthened from the longstanding struggles of EJ activists, scholar activists, & civil society institutions, within a specific context 4/n

These questions have come up in the context of the convergence of environmental justice & climate justice movements. And, as part of scholar activism advocating for a global environmental justice movement. Hugely imp for global solidarity with Indigenous Peoples' struggles. 5/n

Two pieces have fostered my thinking on Qs of comparative env justice.

1) Schlosberg & Collins. “From Environmental to Climate Justice: Climate Change & the Discourse of Environmental Justice.” in WIREs Climate Change @DSchlosberg 6/n @WIREs_Reviews wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

2) Martinez-Alier et al. Is There a Global Environmental Justice Movement? Also see, Anguelovski & Martínez Alier. 2014. “The ‘Environmentalism of the Poor’ Revisited.” Kudos to the inspiring work of many scholars & activists as part of #EJAtlas @EnvJustice @ianguelovski 7/n

I seek to bring in the tools & conceptual architecture of comparative environmental politics, comparative institutionalism & political economy to these debates. There is a massive opportunity to forge engaged cross-disciplinary conversations on environmental & climate justice 8/n

EJ/CJ scholars engaging in self-critiques is challenging w/ potential political implications. A shared commitment to respect, learn from, & contribute to Indigenous Peoples' struggles across the vastly different political landscapes of global South vs North will keep us going 9/n

I'm fired up about engaging with EJ/CJ research communities. Such collaborations seem crucial to learn from diverse Indigenous Peoples of the world & advance the ongoing work of decolonizing environmentalism & environmental studies. In Solidarity✊🏽✊🏽 10/10 eu.patagonia.com/es/fr/stories/…

Should've mentioned that the two photos in the tweets above are not some random pictures - they represent the two case studies I use in this comparative analysis of Indigenous Struggles in India & the United States. 11/n #EnvironmentalJustice #Decolonization #IndigenousPeoples