ABSTRACT
In an attempt to provide a background of spatial justice that complements approaches in the environmental humanities for the following chapters of the book, this opening chapter of Part I, ‘Space’, outlines a brief critical history of spatial and place justice in geography and social theory. Chapter 2 further demonstrates how a spatial theories of justice might fruitfully apply to scholarship and writing in the environmental humanities. Included throughout, I highlight some key figures, such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Doreen Massey, Edward Soja, Iris Marion Young, Tim Cresswell, Yi Fu Tuan, and Edward Relph, who all have contributed to constructing the paradigms of spatial justice and place studies. Their writings do more than outline spatial theory; they provide a foundation for this book’s environmental focus. This first chapter, the first half of Part I, primarily serves as a critical introduction for Ecological Exile. It also reinforces the overall argument and provides some literary and visual examples throughout. The main objective here is to establish how spatial and environmental justice anticipate solastalgia as it relates to place (see Chapter 2), providing the groundwork for the remaining chapters of the book.
