Unit 3: Fenceline Activists and Environmental Causes Flashcards
Protest Event Analysis
One methodology used to examine and compare the character of different social movements, as well as to trace change over time. It studies large numbers of protest based on content analysis of protest reports from newspapers and other sources.
Participatory Action Research
A social science methodology which brings analysts into a cooperative relationship with people whose actions they are studying.
-It puts scientists and citizens on a more equal footing to work together to not only analyze a problem but to find solutions that can be acted on by the people concerned.
Environmental Racism
A facet of environmental injustice, and happens when development, policies, or practices intentionally or unintentionally result in more pollution or health risks in Indigenous and racialized communities.
Environmental Justice
The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
Environmental Health
The branch of public health concerned with monitoring or mitigating those factors in the environment that affect human health and disease
Fenceline Communities
An area that is immediately adjacent to an industry and is directly affected by the noise, odors, chemical emissions, traffic, etc. Those who live in fenceline communities are more likely to suffer ill effects of toxic exposure, whether from air, water, or contaminated wild foods.
Popular Epidemiology
The mobilization of citizens around the goal of identifying and improving environmental stressors and local illness patterns.
Body Mapping
Life-sized drawings of a human body, where diseases are afflicting individuals. These maps helped document the existence and characteristics of the disease cluster.
Contested Illness
The phenomenon of the existence of disease and the denial by industry, government, media and others about environmental links and/or the industrial sources of toxic exposure. Because the cause of the illnesses was contested, it put the companies and the victims on conflicting sides of the issue.
Citizen-Science Alliance
The alliance between citizens and scientists to research causes and remedies to social and environmental problems. It is an effective form of organizing, learning, and dialogue within movements and between movements & institutions.
Climate Justice
A concept that addresses the ethical dimensions of climate change. It is the applied ethics, research, and activism using the term approach anthropogenic climate change as an ethical, legal, and political issue, rather than one that is purely environmental or physical in nature.
Artivism
A blended term that combines art and activism, which has garnered a fair amount of study across arts, humanities, and social science disciplines.
