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.