Contested Knowledges in Environmental Assessment
This side of my work focuses my long-term interest in the formation, solidification, and perpetuation of environmental injustice through a series of projects on contested environmental knowledge in state resource management. In two papers in this area (see Tollefson and Panikkar, 2020; Panikkar and Tollefson, 2018), I investigate how the governance of extractive development in the US Arctic precludes possibilities for the equitable inclusion of Native Alaskan communities in formal, state-led processes of environmental knowledge production and adjudication – and how coalitions of community activists and expert consultants make alternative environmental knowledge claims to the state and in public arenas.
Related publications
- Tollefson, J. and Panikkar, B. 2020. “Impact assessment, public engagement, and environmental knowledge production: Large mine permitting in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.” Journal of Political Ecology 27(1): 1166-1188.
- Panikkar, B. and Tollefson, J. 2018. “Land as material, knowledge and relationships: Resource extraction and subsistence imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska.” Social Studies of Science 48(5): 715-739.