Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place
以威尔士南部山谷的露天煤矿开采为案例，探讨日常空间中的环境不公正，强调景观的地理想象与日常政治不公正，对研究环境正义、后殖民地理和资源政治的学者有参考价值。
In this article we use a case study of opencast coal mining in the southern valleys of Wales to explore the ordinary and everyday spatialities of environmental injustice. Responding to recent geographical critiques of environmental justice research and engaging with post-colonial studies of landscape and environment, we provide an account of environmental injustice that emphasises competing geographical imaginaries of landscape and ‘ordinary political injustices’ within everyday spaces. We begin with a discussion of how historical environmental injustices in Wales have been framed within nationalist politics as a form of colonial exploitation of the country’s natural resources. We then make use of materials from recent research on opencast mining in South Wales to examine local understandings of and everyday encounters with mining, highlighting contradictory discourses of opencast mining, landscape and place, and the injustices associated with mining developments in this region.