Inequality, Social Differences and Environmental Resources

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What happens when ‘environmentalism’ meets the ‘politics of difference’? At the very least, an intellectually and politically exciting aspect of environmental sociology comes into view, one that focuses on issues of ‘environmental justice’. The issues that become visible at such a point of intersection pose a radical challenge to mainstream understandings of environmentalism, offer a powerful critique of contemporary (capitalist) social relations, and highlight the need to develop a new form of transformative politics in the ‘age of globalisation’.

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