Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Silent Spring Institute, Newton, MA, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2021 Jun;62(2):222-229. doi: 10.1177/00221465211005704. Epub 2021 Apr 12.
The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with a powerful upsurge in antiracist activism in the United States, linking many forms and consequences of racism to public and environmental health. This commentary develops the concept of to explain interrelationships between the pandemic and socioecological systems, demonstrating how COVID-19 both reveals and deepens structural inequalities that form along lines of environmental health. Using Pellow's critical environmental justice theory, we examine how the crisis has made more visible and exacerbated links between racism, poverty, and health while providing opportunities to enact change through . We describe new collaborations and the potential for meaningful opportunities at the intersections between health, antiracist, environmental, and political movements that are advocating for the types of transformational change described by critical environmental justice.
新冠疫情与美国反种族主义激进主义的强大浪潮同时发生，将多种形式和后果的种族主义与公共和环境健康联系起来。本评论文章发展了 的概念，以解释大流行病与社会生态系统之间的相互关系，展示了 COVID-19 如何揭示和加深沿着环境健康形成的结构性不平等。我们使用佩洛的批判性环境正义理论，研究了这场危机如何使种族主义、贫困和健康之间的联系更加明显和加剧，同时又为通过 来实施变革提供了机会。我们描述了新的合作以及在倡导批判性环境正义所描述的变革类型的健康、反种族主义、环境和政治运动之间的交叉点上的有意义机会的潜力。
