ABSTRACT
This essay is a contribution to the critical study of discourse and identity politics in the environmental justice movement. My focus is on a particular set of environmental justice struggles that linked the restoration of traditional land and water rights with ecosystem management and social justice. I am especially concerned with outlining certain political and ideological processes that are associated with the formation of multiple, shifting identities and ‘hybrid’ project strategies. I am also concerned with exploring place-based identities and their role in the formation of the ideological discourses of environmental justice.
