Kant and Environmental Racism
This essay proposes Immanuel Kant as a conceptual progenitor for the institutionalized environmental racism encountered in many parts of the globe today. Adopting this proposal requires expanding our definition of environmental racism to include both institutional and conceptual dimensions, both of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Rivista di Estetica |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/estetica/17935 |
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| Summary: | This essay proposes Immanuel Kant as a conceptual progenitor for the institutionalized environmental racism encountered in many parts of the globe today. Adopting this proposal requires expanding our definition of environmental racism to include both institutional and conceptual dimensions, both of which are historically emergent and entrenched. It also entails simultaneously approaching Kant’s thought from a pair of scholarly vantage points, the racial and the environmental, which are typically explored in isolation from one another. While such a reading may be atypical within both the environmental justice and Kant studies fields, it is argued that our understandings of both environmental racism and Kant are enriched as a result, and that, more methodologically, the sort of conceptual-historical root-tracing modeled here can be valuable for both academic fields, not to mention for the environmental justice movement more generally, going forward. |
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| ISSN: | 0035-6212 2421-5864 |