By : Thomas Sikor, Hari Dhungana and Gyanu Maskey, 2015
Abstract: This paper explores the role of brokerage in mobilizations for environmental justice. It also summarize that if notions of environmental justice are plural then brokerage plays a critical role in mediating between different notions and translating notions between different arenas, actors and localities. For example, brokerage works to refashion universal agendas for specific contexts and reframe site-specific grievances in terms of universal principles and multi-sited activities. The particular interest is with the question of how global environmental norms achieve or do not achieve stable traction on the ground through brokerage that creates coherent representations of particular struggles and constructs interactions patterned in resonance with global norms. This paper hopes to gain insights on the proposition that justice provides a powerful ‘master frame’ (Della Porta and Tarrow 2005) or ‘global brand’ (Agyeman 2014) for site-specific struggles.
