Black Ecology and Critical Environmental Justice

Abstract

How do we make sense of—and adequately strive against or put an end to—the socioecological violence that so tenaciously adheres to black life? In response to this question, this essay contributes to the collective endeavor toward a black (radical) ecology, as an ever-necessary and ever-evolving knowledge and practice of insurgency. More specifically, we take the opportunity we reflect upon what David N. Pellow identifies as the pillars of critical environmental justice studies to find resonance with strains of black thought that are explicitly concerned with antiblack violence.