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{"title":"Land means the world: narratives of place and colonial ecological violence in the media framing of the Bears Ears National Monument","authors":"Amanda Ricketts","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2267832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2267832","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSettler colonialism shapes the governance of public land in what is now called the United States, contributing to eco-social disruptions for Indigenous populations. The Bears Ears National Monument was established in December 2016 in an unprecedented collaboration between the federal government and an inter-tribal coalition. Less than a year later, in December 2017, the Trump administration issued a presidential proclamation removing and bisecting 85% of the protected land for energy exploration. I analyze media coverage of Bears Ears National Monument from December 2016 to December 2017 to observe the effects of this framing on elimination projects of the settler state in public land conflicts. I find through the repeated erasure and redirection of Indigenous narratives, local media coverage centralizes the interests of the settler state by classifying land as an asset, making settler political concerns the central contentious issue. To understand how colonial ecological violence shapes the governance of public land, like the case of the Bears Ears National Monument under the Trump administration, scholars should attend to how the media advances narratives of place and contributes to cultural elimination.KEYWORDS: Colonial ecological violencesettler colonialismBears Ears National Monumentpublic landmedia AcknowledgmentsI would like to extend thanks to Raoul Lievanos, Kari Norgaard, Ryan Light, Claire Herbert, and the members of the Janet Smith Cooperative, whose comments and support made the writing of this article possible.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAmanda RickettsAmanda Ricketts, MS, is a PhD student at the University of Oregon. Their research focuses on social movements, space and environment, and narratives of place and colonial ecological violence in public land management.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performing zero waste: lifestyle movement, consumer culture, and promotion strategies of social media influencers","authors":"Danning Lu","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2267829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2267829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTZero waste movement has been gaining popularity in the recent decade and social media influencers’ promotion is central to movement growth. How do influencers popularize zero waste lifestyle practices that counter the dominant consumption norms? Are their strategies successful? This article examines influencers’ lifestyle advocacy as social performance, focusing on their scripts and visual presentations to social media audience. Based on content analysis of 250 Instagram posts, this article uses a cultural sociology lens to analyze zero waste influencers’ strategies and the audience responses. Problematization of wasteful consumption norms and legitimization of zero waste alternatives through demonstrating its feasibility, attractiveness, and integration with socio-political concerns are four prominent strategies. Zero waste influencers employ performance elements such as textual and visual scripts, means of symbolic production, and mise-en-scene to enhance authenticity and mobilize zero waste practices. Meanwhile, insufficient accountability of corporate waste culprits, limited representativeness of the privileged influencers, and contradictory embeddedness in consumer culture still threaten the legitimacy of their performance. This article centers the analysis of sustainable lifestyle movement leaders and their social media presentation, which have been little discussed but increasingly important. It also provides practical strategies for promoting sustainable lifestyle on social media.KEYWORDS: zero wastelifestyle movementsustainable lifestyleconsumer culturesocial performancesocial media influencerconsumption AcknowledgementI express deep gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and insightful comments. I want to thank Dr. Philip Smith, Dr. Jeffrey Alexander, and all cultural sociology colleagues at Yale who have given valuable advice and supported me greatly during the publishing of this article. I am grateful for the zero waste community and practitioners who inspire me.dgments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Pictures from: trashisfortossers instagram page, book cover of zero waste: Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce Your Trash, johnson.html’ title=“Ctrl+Click to follow link” element-type=“link” ref-type=“DOI” aid=“1s45y2i0x763v8a” icoretag=“uri” ia_version=’0”>https://zerowastemegan.weebly.com/bea-johnson.html, https://money.com/savings-eliminating-plastic-money-tips/2. Other terms including environmental/green/eco-friendly lifestyle refer to the same construct that I try to capture here, which is a lifestyle that intends to reduce environmental impact. Sustainable lifestyle entails subcategories including pro-environmental behaviors, sustainable consumption,anti-consumption, voluntary simplicity, vegetarianism, veganism etc.3. https://www.zerowaste.com/blog/the-top-ten-zero-waste-influencers-in-the-world-today/4. https://www.trvst.world/sustainable-liv","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135198244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public perceptions of environmental degradation in the Arab World: evidence from surveys about water, air, and sanitation","authors":"Nimah Mazaheri","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2251785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2251785","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMany Arab countries are struggling to combat a range of environmental problems from air pollution to water salinization to overflowing garbage. Yet little is known about how people in this region perceive these environmental problems and the factors that influence their perceptions. This article analyzes surveys conducted by the Arab Barometer with 13,850 people across 12 Arab countries in 2018–19. The focus is on public perceptions about water pollution, air pollution, and trash. About 91% of respondents said that water pollution is a very serious or serious problem. About 89% and 73% feel the same way about trash and air pollution, respectively. Perceptions about environmental quality are mainly shaped by a person’s age, educational background, financial status, and how they view the current economic situation. Although perceptions about water and trash are directly connected to a national environmental quality measure, they are unconnected to specific measurements of clean water access and sanitation quality. Furthermore, perceptions about air quality are unconnected to any general or specific (national- or local-level) measurements. Instead, a person’s age, gender, educational background, financial status, and minority status are better predictors of how much they view air quality to be a problem. These findings shed light on the topic of environmental concern in a comparatively understudied area of the world, highlighting the ways that individual, local, and national factors shape how the average person evaluates environmental problems.KEYWORDS: EnvironmentpollutionArab worldpublicsurveys Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The term ‘Arab World’ refers to the 22 Arab countries located in the Greater Middle East and North African regions: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.2. Studies of environmental attitudes in Middle Eastern countries that use qualitative, ethnographic, or case study approaches can be found in Croitoru et al. (Citation2010); Jones (Citation2010); Davis and Burke (Citation2011); and Sowers (Citation2013).3. Dunlap et al. (Citation1993), p. 10. Note that Turkey was the only Middle Eastern country surveyed in this study.4. For instance, refer to the survey by the AFED (Citation2017), which uses online convenience sampling methods.5. It is expected that online surveys with probability-based designs will soon be marshaled to generate insights into the environmental attitudes across the Middle East and North Africa. Online surveys are already widely employed in the study of political behavior in the United States (Ansolabehere and Schaffner Citation2018), and this choice of survey mode only increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arab Barometer project, too, was affected by the p","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135481038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Locking-in white-nose syndrome? The limits of the endangered species act & non-charismatic megafauna","authors":"Jordan Hadlock, Brent Z. Kaup","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2261684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2261684","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhite-nose syndrome is a deadly pathogenic fungus that has killed millions of bats. In this article, we ask why, despite a well-coordinated response and a relatively steady federal funding stream, WNS has continued to spread with lethal results? To answer this question, we bring together the tools of political ecologists studying health and diseases with social scientific observations on the impacts of lock-ins on social change. We argue that while federal legislation such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA) allowed researchers to quickly recognize the emergence of WNS, the ESA’s focus and directives to protect individual species constrained the ability of scientists to more rapidly understand both the fungus causing WNS and the broader ecosystem dynamics in which the disease can flourish. In addition, while the ESA was written to protect endangered species regardless of their public perception or perceived economic value, such dynamics influence what gets classified as endangered and how much funding a species receives for protection. We thus further argue that the anthropocentric nature of policy making has made it difficult to address WNS and other wildlife diseases with less obvious human impacts in a more holistic way.KEYWORDS: White-nose syndromeendangered species actpolitical ecologylock-ins AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Amy A. Quark and the studies’ participants who took the time out of their schedules to read over earlier drafts of the manuscript. All errors and claims are of course the responsibility of the authors.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. When first discovered, the fungus was scientifically referred to as Geomyces destructans.2. We recognize that justifying the focus of this manuscript on the economic importance and value of bats is a bit ironic. As many of our informants noted, bats have intrinsic value and are distinctly unique mammals. However, given the anthropocentric nature of the discipline of sociology, we highlight their value to human populations here.3. Bats in Europe are thought to have evolved a resistance to P. destructans and do not suffer from WNS even when the fungus is present on their bodies or in their caves (Blehert et al. Citation2009).Additional informationFundingThe research for this paper was funded by the William & Mary Environment & Sustainability Program Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship.Notes on contributorsJordan HadlockJordan Hadlock is a student in Department of Sociology and the Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary. They have future career and research aspirations in conservation and social and environmental justice.Brent Z. KaupBrent Z. Kaup is a Professor of Sociology at William & Mary. His research focuses on the links between finance, landscape change, and infectious disease.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics in the energy-security nexus: an epistemic governance approach to the zero-carbon energy transition in Finland, Estonia, and Norway","authors":"Marja Helena Sivonen, Paula Kivimaa","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2251873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2251873","url":null,"abstract":"To reduce the energy sector’s CO2 emissions, sustainability transitions are essential but may have unexpected national security consequences. We investigate policymaking around energy transitions and national security, combining sociology with sustainability transitions thinking to analyse 73 policy documents issued between 2006 and 2023 in Estonia, Finland, and Norway and investigate how zero-carbon energy and security issues have co-evolved with, strengthened, or undermined one another by analysing the rhetoric in official national strategy documents. With an epistemic governance framework, we identify the discourses that contextualise, justify, and explain policymaking in the energy–security nexus. We find that sustainable energy transitions are strengthened by connections to national security when alternative energy niches have matured but undermined for the same reason when fossil fuels are viewed as more robust sources of security. We detect policy intervention points aiming to indicate how transitions are enabled. Estonia and Finland evince strategic directions to destabilise the regime while supporting niches, whereas Norway focuses on continued oil and gas production. Whereas all are in principle in favour of sustainability transitions, they define transitions differently: Estonia values national sovereignty, Finland preparedness and the economy, and Norway sustainable development and economic security tied to hydrocarbons.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toxic freedom: how middle-class seasonal fruit pickers perceive and manage agrochemical exposures","authors":"Anelyse M. Weiler","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2251748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2251748","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In a global agricultural context that is more chemically dependent than ever, occupational exposure to pesticides typically maps onto entrenched inequalities. Existing research has documented the health hazards of agrochemical exposure facing predominantly low-income, racialized farmworkers. Yet some young middle-class people in wealthy countries are intentionally pursuing informal seasonal farm jobs. How do workers in social positions that typically protect against workplace vulnerability manage the uncertainty of toxic exposures? This study draws on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with French, English and Spanish-speaking domestic and international farmworkers in British Columbia, Canada. I identify three pathways by which farmworkers perceive and manage agrochemical exposure: informal bodily evidence, individually managing risks and rationalizing exposure. This article introduces the concept of ‘toxic freedom’ to show how workers may downplay workplace risks by framing pesticide exposure as a reasonable trade-off for personal autonomy, countercultural idealism and temporary youthful adventure. This research underscores why individual-level agricultural health and safety interventions may be limited in protecting workers from harmful agrochemical exposures. Rather, it signals the opportunity for policy interventions such as stronger pesticide regulation, proactive spot inspections, higher penalties for non-compliance, and clearer channels for farmworkers to have a collective democratic voice in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45662526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agricultural landowner perspectives on wind energy development in Alberta, Canada: insights from the lens of energy justice and democracy","authors":"Max Chewinski, S. Anders, J. Parkins","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2247627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2247627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The political and economic landscape of Alberta, Canada, is deeply affected by fossil fuel extraction, thus limiting progress toward energy transition. Although transition is slowed by resistance to renewable energy technologies, public perspectives on these projects are diverse, with localized sensitives that are often not well understood. To improve our understanding of support and opposition to wind energy development, we draw on concepts of energy democracy, distributive and procedural justice. Utilizing a factorial survey experiment, and latent class analysis to measure these concepts with a sample of 401 large-scale agricultural landowners, we identify three distinct groups of individuals with unique preferences that are grounded in how individuals view and support wind energy. Contrasting most respondents with moderate views on wind projects, we identify a distinct group of supportive landowners when community benefits are well defined. A third group is defined largely by opposition to wind energy whereby justice concerns are associated with distancing their land from the impacts of wind turbines. Our conclusions identify the value of careful and transparent project design in consultation with local communities and affected landowners to avoid opposition noted here and in previous studies.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46007274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regenerative sustainability. A relational model of possibilities for the emergence of positive tipping points","authors":"J. Tàbara","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2239538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2239538","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Global environmental change problems are relational problems, so individual and collective actions aimed at dealing with them need to address fundamental changes about how we relate to social and biophysical systems. In this contribution, I suggest that current attempts to theorise and act on sustainability transformations would benefit from a relational perspective characterising individuals, organisations and societies as coupled social-ecological systems set in the context of accelerating global environmental change. Using a whole-life-systems’ non-exemptionalist worldview, a conceptual model is presented to help explore the theoretical possibilities for creating regenerative sustainability pathways. Learning to restore and improve the life-support conditions that ensure long-term sustainability will require enacting positive synergies between social and biophysical capitals as well as reframing anthropocentric conceptions of agency and of individual emancipation. In particular, regenerative sustainability pathways entail synergising different kinds and levels of agency in non-dualistic ways and tackle at the same time transformations in: social and institutional arrangements (S), energy and natural resources (E), information and knowledge systems (I) and accumulated environmental change (C) -the SEIC model.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43439671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engaging in reuse, gleaning and zero waste in France: a civic ecology of matter","authors":"Isabelle Hajek","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2240080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2240080","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A wide array of practices of recycling, reuse and waste reduction has emerged both in America and in Western Europe. This article examines the ways in which they reveal a new form of environmental engagement, based on the findings of a sociological study commissioned by the French national agency for the ecological transition ADEME’s 1 programme. Having discussed the links between waste policy and environmental activism in the French context, it shows that, to appreciate the transformative reach of these initiatives, a theoretical framework is needed that combines literature on citizen participation, on the relationships between activist and economic worlds, and on sustainable materialism. This joint theoretical framework is used to analyse the civic ecology of matter that emerges from these anti-waste initiatives, transforming society’s relationship to waste.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41890389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceptions of local environment change and ecological habitus","authors":"Matthew Stackhouse, Howard Ramos, K. Foster, Mark C. J. Stoddart","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2234644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2234644","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research shows that people’s perceptions of environmental change are strong predictors of ecologically supportive behaviours and attitudes, but less is known about what causes some people to perceive environmental change more than others. This study considers whether participation in outdoor leisure activities accounts for different perceptions of the local environment. We consider how leisure activities form a broader ‘ecological habitus’ while also considering the role that education has in structuring perceptions and practice. We use survey data on perceptions of environmental change and use Principal Component Analysis and logistic regression to explore ecological habitus and the effect of leisure activities on environmental perceptions. Results show that outdoor leisure practices shape perceptions of local environment change and offer a continuum of ecological habitus ranging from appreciative to low resource outdoor leisure associated with varied perceptions of environment degradation. Education is a limited factor in predicting perceptions or explaining associations between leisure and environmental perceptions.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47274996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}