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“This Port Is Killing People”: Sustainability without Justice in the Neo-Keynesian Green City

2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 108; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/24694452.2017.1393328

2469-4460

Juan De Lara,

Urban Planning and Governance

This article examines how regional policymakers in Southern California deployed a green growth strategy that cemented racial, environmental, and class precariousness into the region's ecological fabric. It uses participant observation and extant data to show how environmentalist statecraft provided ideological cover for a type of neo-Keynesian logistics growth regime that used infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy without addressing underlying issues of racial, economic, and environmental justice. Urban political ecology and racial capitalism are used as theoretical frameworks to stretch the boundaries of how sustainability is conceptualized and to challenge assumptions behind a green capitalism framework. Finally, the article examines how labor and environmental justice activists used what Sze et al. (2009 Sze, J., J. London, F. Shilling, G. Gambirazzio, T. Filan, and M. Cadenasso. 2009. Defining and contesting environmental justice: Socio-natures and the politics of scale in the delta. Antipode 41 (4):807–43.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 836) called "cultural and ecological discourses" to challenge the green capitalist agenda by incorporating subaltern spatial imaginaries.