Enacting environmental justice in Singapore: performative justice and the Green Volunteer Network

Hobson, Kersty ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-9081 2006. Enacting environmental justice in Singapore: performative justice and the Green Volunteer Network. Geoforum 37 (5) , pp. 671-681. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.08.004

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Abstract

Environmental justice research has of late expanded beyond its’ original focus on the distribution of environmental ‘bads’ to debate injustices at a wide array of sites and scales. Despite this expansion, the applicability of an environmental justice framework to seemingly apolitical and banal expressions of environmental concerns remains open to question. This paper argues that environmental justice struggles can be located in the mundane environmental politics of Singapore, by employing a performative rather than rights-based approach to both justice and politics. It draws on qualitative research into volunteers’ practices in one Singaporean environmental organisation, and asserts that through their focus on experiential learning and re-inscribing ‘developmental’ spaces as spaces of care and justice, volunteers seek to redress the social, political and environmental injustices replete within the spatial politics of Singapore.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0016-7185
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 September 2016
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 11:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/94582

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