Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance by Annette Löf, Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Felicia Fahlin

“…We therefore conclude that, in absence of institutional reform, the tool is likely to perpetuate conflicts and continue to reproduce the injustices embedded in Swedish forest and land use governance. …”
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Food: God’s Gift to All People. Case Study from Croatia by Martina Ana Begić

“…The second part presents church’s guidelines, aimed to overcome today’s injustices in the world and provide everyone with access to food, and highlights the importance of producing healthy food for the protection of health. …”
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The potential for justice through tourism by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

“…Future topics to consider include structural issues of mobility in a precarious world, climate injustices, justice for non-human others in the era of the Anthropocene and diverse paradigms and worldviews for thinking through justice tourism.…”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is in the hope that the questions might enlighten and reify contemporary concerns in these respective geographical and intellectual locations, complicating the site and probing the intellectual divide between the Global North and the Global South in area studies, to see how Indigenous concerns globally are aligned in the face of a global climate crisis, as they are disproportionately affected due to historical injustices of empire, settler colonial enterprise, caste orders and religious nationalisms. …”
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The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism and colonialism by Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes

“…To prevent the recurrence of these injustices, history must be unveiled and occupational therapists urged to come to terms with their own involvement and responsibility.Objective and Method Utilising Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy’s concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence.Results By examining its roles in World War II and France’s colonisation of Algeria, we make visible the development of occupational therapy’s distinct ‘shadow side’. …”
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Living with Gorillas? Lessons from Batwa-Gorillas’ Convivial Relations at Bwindi Forest, Uganda by Christine, Ampumuza

“…This is a welcome development because most of the injustices and failures of fortress conservation arose from neglecting local communities’ view of being with nature, and knowledges of nature (plural of knowledge highlights that there are multiple ways and types of acquiring and transmitting knowledge through generations). …”
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Liberating the open and distance learning model from the chains of oppressive education theories by Mackenzie Ishmael Chibambo, Joseph Jinja Divala, Aggripa Chingombe

“…While some scholars may find these parallels unremarkable, the reality remains that existing ODL policies and practices continue to perpetuate epistemological injustices, stifling human agency, and curtailing various freedoms. …”
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Disruptively regional: How women in Regional, Rural and Remote communities ‘imagine’ with and through digital and social media by Tara BRABAZON, Jacqueline EWART

“…Certainly, analogue injustices overlay digital inequalities. However, the opportunities and potential for resistance and interventions are revealed and disseminated the courage, direction and gumption of women summoning a different mode of media leadership that is critiques and transforms traditional models of ownership, production, and consumption.  …”
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Conservation data infrastructures: From carbon accounting to multiple biodiversity and social measures by Danilo Urzedo, Nikki P. Dumbrell, Catherine J. Robinson

“…Yet, the growing reliance on data‐driven approaches raises concerns regarding biases, uncertainties, and injustices in environmental decision‐making processes. …”
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What we talk about when we talk about decentralization? Insights from post-revolution Tunisia by Lana Salman

“…At stake in this comparison are two discourses of decentralization that call forth diverging development models: one model focuses on the financial, administrative and political autonomy of municipalities from the central government, while the other calls for reparations and a desire for a state that restores past injustices. This language forces us to rethink the mode of politics undergirding decentralization policies, and accordingly to re-theorize decentralization from a particular place on the map, from Tunisia.…”
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Making Hidden Sustainable Urban Planning and Landscape Knowledge Visual and Multisensorial by Carlos J. L. Balsas

“…This paper analyzes how four educational and research programs implemented at the University at Albany built upon visual and multisensorial research methods to augment educational outcomes, bolster scholarly significance, and provide up-to-date knowledge to empower concerned stakeholders to help change unsustainable urbanization practices, social inequities and injustices in cities, car dependence and sedentary lifestyles, protect natural resources and livelihoods, while reducing environmental and social harm. …”
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Cultivating Well-being, Community Cohesion, and Sense of Purpose through African Contemplative Practices by Lucy Draper-Clarke, Caryn Green

“…The global decline in mental health provides increased relevance, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of perpetuated historical injustices that have rendered individuals and communities isolated and disconnected. …”
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Water security reframed using Water System Justice and Earth system boundaries, foundations, and corridor by Joyeeta Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Hilmer J. Bosch, Luc van Vliet

“…This in turn can lead to practices such as water grabbing creating and perpetuating injustices for the poor and marginalized. To counter this, we propose to conceptually link water security to water justice through an operationalized framework for Water System Justice (WSJ). …”
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Entre sacrificios y esperanzas: análisis de conflictos socioambientales en Bogotá desde una perspectiva de ecología política by Mariluz Nova Laverde, Milton Piñeros Fuentes, Jaime Edison Rojas Mora

“…Two research strategies are used: first, an analysis of the historical and material injustices shaping these territories, using a socio-environmental justice index to highlight the inequalities that form sacrifice geographies; and second, the documentation and systematization of local experiences, knowledge, and practices arising from processes of self-recognition and peasant resilience to identify the creation of geographies of hope. …”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…I argue  that these perspectives are invaluable to the discipline of German Studies and that there is much more to this group than the discrimination and pain they have faced. Although the injustices of past and present have indeed been formative in the lives of so many Roma & Sinti, it limits the scope of what we know and can learn from them.  …”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…I argue  that these perspectives are invaluable to the discipline of German Studies and that there is much more to this group than the discrimination and pain they have faced. Although the injustices of past and present have indeed been formative in the lives of so many Roma & Sinti, it limits the scope of what we know and can learn from them.  …”
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Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes by Frantál Bohumil, Pasqualetti Martin J., Brisudová Lucia

“…The post-mining transformation involves many dilemmas, often arouses land use conflicts and can reproduce environmental injustices. In the background of conflicts are diverging preferences for post-mining land uses from the perspective of various stakeholders. …”
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A human capability approach to transformative innovation policy. Theoretical insights and practical implications for directionality by Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco, Bipashyee Ghosh

“…While TIP literature highlights the importance of considering multiple innovation pathways, it often overlooks the injustices hindering them. This paper explores how the Capability Approach (CA) can enhance the analysis and practical considerations of directionality within the TIP. …”
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Consommation des produits écologiques et inégalités sociales. Le cas tunisien by Ridha Abdmouleh

“…Despite its noble cause, the environmentalist issue can escape neither from class categorization nor from the reproduction of social injustices. As a result, traditional conceptions and relations between the economic and social spaces and the environmental space need to be reconsidered.…”
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Let us be heard: critical analysis and debate of collaborative research approaches used in implementation science research with equity-deserving populations by Sarah Madeline Gallant, Cynthia Mann, Britney Benoit, Megan Aston, Janet Curran, Christine Cassidy

“…Although CBPR’s intentional methods to address social injustices are essential to consider in research with pregnant persons diagnosed with OUD, IKT aligned best within the implementation science inquiry due to its neutral philosophical underpinning and congruent aims in exploring complex implementation science inquiries. …”
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