Special issue: environmental justice and epistemic violence

Studying environmental justice as a global topic is not a new phenomenon and numerous studies have reviewed environmental justice in the Global South (Zerner 2000; Peluso and Watts MacDonald Agyeman, and Walker 2011). It has been widely argued in environmental justice literature that liberal conceptions of justice, and distributional fairness in particular, have enforced an assimilation of western discourses and practices in the Global South (see e.g. Vermeylen and Walker 2011; Martin, McGuire, and Sullivan 2013). This special issue contributes to this growing field of global and critical environmental justice.