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Article: Contested Worldings of E-Waste Environmental Justice: Nonhuman Agency and E-Waste Scalvaging in Guiyu, China
Title | Contested Worldings of E-Waste Environmental Justice: Nonhuman Agency and E-Waste Scalvaging in Guiyu, China |
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Authors | |
Keywords | actor-network theory capability environmental justice distributional environmental justice e-waste nonhuman agency |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raag20/current |
Citation | Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021, Epub 2021-04-27 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Current environmental justice (EJ) research is moving beyond the distributional paradigm to embrace frameworks that emphasize the plurality of EJs. This study proposes that actor-network theory (ANT), which foregrounds nonhuman agency and heterogeneous associations, holds great potential for pushing forward this research agenda. It presents an ANT-informed analysis of the plural epistemologies of EJ by focusing on a global e-waste scalvaging hub—Guiyu in China. E-waste is considered a fluid and emergent material actant. The multiplicity of e-waste materialities coconstitutes the disparate worldings of EJ, with a wide range of actors involved in the knowledge-making practices. Disparate EJ realities concerning e-waste scalvaging have been worlded and enacted through the heterogeneous associations among numerous nonhuman actors, including discarded electronic devices, environmental conditions, pollutants, toxic substances, artifacts, discourses, tools and techniques, and a variety of human stakeholders, ranging from nongovernmental organizations, media, and academics to local scalvagers relying on e-waste for livelihood and wealth. In tracing these heterogeneous associations, this study juxtaposes two competing EJ worldings related to the ontological indeterminacy of e-waste. It first problematizes the worlding of North-to-South dumping that not only mispresents the complex geographies of e-waste, but also epitomizes a simplified distributional model of EJ.Then it ventures to theorize an often-neglected and underresearched dimension: EJ as situated capabilities and functionings concerned by the local community. This study thus adds to ongoing efforts to advance pluralist epistemologies of EJ. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/300330 |
ISSN | 2017 Impact Factor: 3.810 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, K | - |
dc.contributor.author | Qian, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | He, S | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-04T08:41:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-04T08:41:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021, Epub 2021-04-27 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-5608 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/300330 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Current environmental justice (EJ) research is moving beyond the distributional paradigm to embrace frameworks that emphasize the plurality of EJs. This study proposes that actor-network theory (ANT), which foregrounds nonhuman agency and heterogeneous associations, holds great potential for pushing forward this research agenda. It presents an ANT-informed analysis of the plural epistemologies of EJ by focusing on a global e-waste scalvaging hub—Guiyu in China. E-waste is considered a fluid and emergent material actant. The multiplicity of e-waste materialities coconstitutes the disparate worldings of EJ, with a wide range of actors involved in the knowledge-making practices. Disparate EJ realities concerning e-waste scalvaging have been worlded and enacted through the heterogeneous associations among numerous nonhuman actors, including discarded electronic devices, environmental conditions, pollutants, toxic substances, artifacts, discourses, tools and techniques, and a variety of human stakeholders, ranging from nongovernmental organizations, media, and academics to local scalvagers relying on e-waste for livelihood and wealth. In tracing these heterogeneous associations, this study juxtaposes two competing EJ worldings related to the ontological indeterminacy of e-waste. It first problematizes the worlding of North-to-South dumping that not only mispresents the complex geographies of e-waste, but also epitomizes a simplified distributional model of EJ.Then it ventures to theorize an often-neglected and underresearched dimension: EJ as situated capabilities and functionings concerned by the local community. This study thus adds to ongoing efforts to advance pluralist epistemologies of EJ. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raag20/current | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | - |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI]. | - |
dc.subject | actor-network theory | - |
dc.subject | capability environmental justice | - |
dc.subject | distributional environmental justice | - |
dc.subject | e-waste | - |
dc.subject | nonhuman agency | - |
dc.title | Contested Worldings of E-Waste Environmental Justice: Nonhuman Agency and E-Waste Scalvaging in Guiyu, China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Qian, J: jxqian@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | He, S: sjhe@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Qian, J=rp02246 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | He, S=rp01996 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/24694452.2021.1889353 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85105181022 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 322730 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | Epub 2021-04-27 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 20 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000702152300002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |