What is Environmental Justice Cultural Studies?
Environmental justice cultural studies is a branch of an emerging field that might be called “cultural environmental studies,” or “environmental cultural studies.” We give the name environmental justice cultural studies to work that analyzes and supports the movement that demonstrates how environmental problems cannot be solved apart from questions of economic and social justice, especially at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism and “nature.” More concretely, environmental justice cultural studies seeks to contribute to the less developed cultural side of EJ analysis, and to support cultural work (both works of analysis, and works of art and popular culture) that are vital to the movement for environmental and social justice. The broader area environmental cultural studies (sometimes also called “green” cultural studies) is relatively unmapped terrain where cultural studies (broadly conceived) and environmental studies (broadly conceived) meet, overlap, and
