Cited by 309Environmental Justice and Health DisparitiesUrban Green Space and HealthUrban Planning and Governance

Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach

Anguelovski, Isabelle, Brand, Anna Livia, Connolly, James J. T., Corbera, Esteve, Kotsila, Panagiota, Steil, Justin, Garcia-Lamarca, Melissa, Triguero-Mas, Margarita +7 more·2020·Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Abstract

Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting urban ecosystems to enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used to challenge this growing orthodoxy by laying out a nuanced framework that advances critical urban environmental justice scholarship. Beginning from the now well-supported assumption that urban greening is a deeply political project often framed by technocratic principles and promotional claims that this project will result in more just and prosperous cities, we identify existing contributions and limits when examining urban green inequities through the traditional lenses of distributional, recognition, and procedural justice. We then advocate for and lay out a different analytical framework for analyzing justice in urban greening. We argue that new research must uncover how persistent domination and subordination prevent green interventions from becoming an emancipatory antisubordination, intersectional, and relational project that considers the needs, identities, and everyday lives of marginalized groups. Finally, we illustrate our framework’s usefulness by applying it to the analysis of urban residents’ (lack of) access to urban greening and by operationalizing it for two different planning and policy domains: (1) greening…

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Anguelovski, I., Brand, A. L., Connolly, J. J. T., Corbera, E., Kotsila, P., Steil, J., Garcia-Lamarca, M., Triguero-Mas, M., Cole, H., Baró, F., Langemeyer, J., del Pulgar, C. P., Shokry, G., Sekulova, F., & Argüelles Ramos, L.
Affiliations
  • Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Estudis d’Economia i Empresa and Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Venue
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Published
2020-04-29
Volume
110
Issue
6
Pages
1743-1769
ISSN
  • 2469-4452 (ISSN-L)
  • 2469-4460
OpenAlex
W3021637230
Cited by
309
References
147
Citations by year
2026: 44 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 14
FWCI
55.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Urban Green Space and Health
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
Keywords
urban greening, environmental justice, intersectionality, anti-subordination, relational justice, distributive justice, recognition justice, procedural justice, technocracy, marginalized communities

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