Online roundtable: Toxic justice? Epistemic tension and the neglected otherwise in fenceline communities
This roundtable aims to unsettle potentially restrictive framings of environmental justice in polluted communities and
interrogate the implications of a focus on damages and on resistance to pollution. The mobilisation of some fenceline communities does not see the participation of all residents, but only of specific actors whose advocacy aligns with the framings of justice that fit mainstream discourse.

The panel will discuss avenues for the making of a public anthropology beyond toxic exposure as an entry point to remediate environmental injustice. This entails breaking up the notions of suffering, action, and advocacy from
the scientific narrative on toxic exposure to enable geographies of the otherwise (Povinelli 2011). In doing so, the panel will also discuss strategies for engaging with communities, institutions, and other actors to overcome the epistemic tensions arising from rejecting scientific data on pollution as the route to address environmental injustice.
Date: 10 November 2022, 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: Zoom
Speakers: Alice (Mah), Prof Anna Lora-Wainwright, Beth Greenhough (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Brototi Roy (University of Antwerp), Camelia Dewan (University of Oslo), Grettel Navas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Lourdes Vera (University of Buffalo), Maaret Jokela-Pansini (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Nick Shapiro (UCLA), Raffaele Ippolito (University of Oxford)
Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment
Organiser: Ariell Ahearn (School of Geography and the Environment)
Organiser contact email address: ariell.ahearn@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Part of: SoGE Economy and Society Cluster Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScz2WYnxsdzmQT0BVi1Ler4vXcN5uDGKZB1tSJnTr2dZ7ynhg/viewform
Booking email: raffaele.ippolito@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Cost: free
Audience: Public
Editor: Ariell Ahearn Ligham