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Latinx Environmentalism

2025· reference-entry· en· W4411464562 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Sarah D. Wald, Moe Gámez

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicMexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScholarshipEnvironmentalismSociologyGender studiesMainstreamQueerEnvironmental ethicsPoliticsIdeologyWhite (mutation)Political science

Abstract

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Latinx environmentalisms refer to the varied forms of environmental knowledges, embodied and lived experiences, social movements, and cultural productions of those we might term Latina/o/x/e as well as to the interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary scholarship that examines the aforementioned epistemologies, ontologies, histories, experiences, and political efforts. How so-called Latinx communities envision (or not) the environmental and how that might differ from Western or white formulations is part and parcel of this work. Some scholars expose the exclusionary or white supremacist assumptions embedded in “mainstream” environmental thought. Others attend to the environmental injustices that Latina/o/x/e communities face, especially in urban areas and in agriculture. Increasingly, work showcases a variety of alternative environmental imaginaries and ethics in Latina/o/x/e literature, cultural production, and social movements. Much of this scholarship is intersectional with increasing attention given to queer ecologies, gender, and sexuality. Cultural geography has influenced scholars across fields, including those working in history and literature. Continued archival work reveals Latina/o/x/e contributions to conservation in US history. Careful consideration of space and place is widespread, particularly in relation to borderlands, manifest destiny, and belonging. Scholars attend to the various ways Latinx communities experience the outdoors and recreation, as well as how they create a sense of place through cultural practices. Historically, the field has disproportionately centered scholarship on Chicana/o/x/e environmentalisms, with particular attention to their relationship to land. Increasingly, scholars are attending to additional national heritages and pan-Latinx identities whose ecological thought has been underrepresented in the field. Mirroring the larger conversation around Indigeneity and settler colonialism in Latinx studies, Latinx environmentalisms increasingly grapple with the incommensurabilities between decolonial thought developed in Latin America and that which remains indebted to Indigenous studies developed in the United States and Canada. There is also growing attention to Indigenous and/or Afro-Latina/o/x/e experiences. This is particularly the case within scholarship in Latinx environmentalisms emerging from Latin American studies which frequently focuses on the pluriversity of knowledge systems. Each annotation defers to the identity terms (as in “Latino” or “Latina” or “Latina/o/x”) respective authors used in the summarized work; this recognizes the historical and cultural context each work discusses, the moment of each work’s production, and the decisions of its author.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.106
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1190.013

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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