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Conversations in Environmental Justice: An Interview with Julie Sze

Naomi and David: In your first book, Noxious New York (Sze 2006), you argued that communities engaged in environmental justice struggles “used environmental justice as their new language and approach to old problems of race and urban poverty.” This makes us wonder how we should define environmental justice. Is it a resource that communities draw on in struggles against polluting industries? Is it a phrase we use to name particular kinds of political movement struggles? And what has been and/or should be the role of scholars of environmental justice in contributing to those struggles and creating that shared language?