Contents

• Series Editor Preface ix

• Notes on Contributors x

• Acknowledgements xiii

1. 1Researching Justice: How Do You Make the Research Process ‘Just’?

   Agatha Herman and Joshua Inwood 1

2. PART IJustice as Care-full Encounter 19
   1. 2Resourcing Struggles for Social Justice from the University

      Kate Derickson 21

   2. 3Performing Timespace Encounters: Reflecting on Sharing, Voice and Justice in Qualitative Research

      Elizabeth Mavroudi 31

   3. 4Fostering Food Justice in Academia and Beyond

      Barbora Adlerova and Ana Moragues Faus 46

3. PART IIJustice as Unsettling Asymmetries 65
   1. 5Disrupting the Field? Creating Community-centred Spaces for Epistemic Justice with Rwandese Diaspora Youth

      Jen Dickinson and Natasha Uwimanzi 67

   2. 6Researching Justice: Justice as Accountability and Justice as Collaboration

      Jennifer Balint 88

   3. 7Approaching Energy and Climate Justice: Working Towards More Just Scholarship, Pedagogy and Praxis

      Deepti Chatti 102

4. PART IIIJustice as Challenge 119
   1. 8Perspectives from the Top: Justice, International Relations and the Political Geography of the Arctic

      Corine Wood-Donnelly 121

   2. 9Justice for All? Expanding Questions and Spaces of (In)Justice through Multispecies Research, Teaching and Activism

      Vegan Geography Collective (Richard J. White, Ophélie Véron, Simon Springer and Andrew McGregor) 139

   3. 10The Priority of Justice

      Don Mitchell 159

   4. 11Concluding Thoughts: What Does It Mean to Do ‘Just’ Research?

      Agatha Herman and Joshua Inwood 176

• Index 187

Series Editor Preface

Agatha Herman

Justice refers to a broad concern with fairness, equity, equality and respect. Just from the daily news, it is readily apparent how questions of justice or, in fact, the more obvious experiences of injustice shape our everyday lives. From global trade to our own personal consumption; living or dying through war and peace; access to education; relations in the workplace or home; how we experience life through a spectrum of identities; or the more-than-human entanglements that contextualize our environments, we need to conceptualize and analyse the intersections between spaces and practices of justice in order to formulate innovative and grounded interventions. The Spaces and Practices of Justice book series aims to do so through cutting across scales to explore power, relations and society from the local through to international levels, recognizing that space is fundamental to understanding how (in)justice is relationally produced in, and through, different temporal and geographical contexts. It is also always practised, and a conceptual focus on these ‘doings and sayings’ (Shove, 2014) brings a sense of the everydayness of (in)justice but also allows for analysis of the broader contexts, logics and structures within which such experiences and relations are embedded (Jaeger-Erben and Offenberger, 2014; Herman, 2018).

Notes on Contributors

• Barbora Adlerova is a PhD student and graduate tutor in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. She is interested in how we can create a more just participation in food governance, co-produced evaluation for food system change, and participatory and reflective approaches to research and teaching.

• Jennifer Balint is Professor in Socio-Legal Studies, Criminology, and Head of School, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her most recent book is Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters between Law and Colonialism (University of Michigan Press, 2020, with Julie Evans, Mark McMillan and Nesam McMillan), arising out of the collaborative Minutes of Evidence project. She is the author of Genocide, State Crime and the Law: In the Name of the State (Routledge, 2012) and has worked extensively on accountability for state crime and access to justice.

• Deepti Chatti is Assistant Professor of Climate Justice at the University of California San Diego in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Critical Gender Studies Program. A feminist scholar, ethnographer and engineer, her research critically analyses sustainable development efforts to expand clean energy access and reduce air pollution exposures in historically marginalized communities.

• Kate Derickson directs the Urban Studies programme and is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, where she conducts research on racialization and environmental change. She is also a member of the Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank.

• Jen Dickinson is a political and development geographer at the University of Southampton. Her research investigates the basis on which governments, civil society and international organizations are (re)defining the role of overseas diaspora communities in development; and how diaspora communities are mobilized to contribute to creative economies, tourist landscapes and heritage sectors of their countries of origin.

• Agatha Herman is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. Her work engages with lived experiences and practices of ethics and social justice, raising questions around race and ethnicity, labour, community, governance, gender, land and the more-than-human through a focus on agricultural and mining production networks, and liminal communities.

• Joshua Inwood is Professor of Geography and African American Studies and Senior Scientist in the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. His work focuses on race and whiteness in the US South. Research interests include the US Civil Rights Movement and landscape studies in the US South.

• Elizabeth Mavroudi is Reader in Human Geography in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. She is also currently Co-Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for her School. Her research interests are in migration studies more broadly and in diaspora more specifically. Her qualitative research has focused on issues of identity and politics for different diasporic groups as well as on migrant perceptions of immigration policy.

• Andrew McGregor is Professor of Human Geography and Director of Research and Innovation in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University. His work focuses upon human-environment relations in the context of global environmental change with a view to developing more convivial and just multispecies futures. His research projects primarily examine food and forest futures in Australia and Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on the relationship between animal industries and climate change. Andrew is author of Southeast Asian Development (Routledge) and lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Development; co-editor of Vegan Geographies: Spaces Beyond Violence, Ethics Beyond Speciesism and former editor-in-chief of Asia Pacific Viewpoint. Andrew can be contacted on andrew.mcgregor@mq.edu.au.

• Don Mitchell is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Human Geography at Uppsala University and Distinguished Professor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University. His work focuses on historical and contemporary struggles over urban public, the relationship between capital, labour and the state in the making of geographical landscapes, and the geography of culture.

• Ana Moragues Faus is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Economics and Business and Director of the Food Action and Research Observatory at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She works closely with civil society organizations and policy makers to build sustainable and just food systems, mobilizing critical analytical tools and co-productive practices.

• Simon Springer’s degrees, titles, awards, rank, H-Index, followers on social media and previous publications don’t particularly matter … or at least they shouldn’t when reading the chapter that he contributed to and determining its worth.

• Natasha Uwimanzi has over eight years’ of experience in the international development management and research consulting and has worked across Africa, notably Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Zambia. She has extensive experience with peace education, diaspora engagement, teacher training and development programmes, and social and emotional learning in schools – and is particularly passionate about research in education and development. Natasha Uwimanzi holds two bachelor of science degrees and a master’s in international development and education from the University of East Anglia.

• Ophélie Véron is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies of the Technische Universität Berlin. She is also affiliated with the Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin. Ophélie’s research to date has engaged with a range of interweaving themes, including socio-ecological transformation and social justice, urban social movements, anarchist geographies and vegan geographies.

• Richard J. White is Reader in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Greatly influenced by anarchist praxis, his main research agenda explores a range of ethical, economic and activist landscapes rooted in questions of interspecies social justice, and the politics of total liberation. Recently edited books include Critical Animal Studies and Activism (Peter Lang, 2023) and Vegan Geographies: Spaces beyond Violence, Ethics beyond Speciesism (Lantern Press, 2022).

• Corine Wood-Donnelly is Associate Professor of International Relations and the High North at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Nord University. She is also a researcher at Uppsala University where she is the Scientific Coordinator for the EU-funded project JUSTNORTH (GA 869327). Dr Wood-Donnelly is an interdisciplinary researcher in International Relations and political geography and specializes in governance and policy of the Arctic region.

Acknowledgements

No book comes together without the efforts of many, many people. This is especially true with an edited book. Researching justice would not have been possible without our contributors and their patience and generosity during this book project, as well as their critical reflections on their own experiences and practices. We also appreciate the patience of the publisher as various personal and global events kept pushing the deadline back. Josh Inwood would like to especially thank Agatha Herman for her work during this project. Quite literally this book is the result of Agatha’s work and efforts and her belief in this project.