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relationship to nature and the environment. California’s drought was already a national news item on May 5, 2015, when Santa Barbara declared a Stage 3 drought 1 ( Welsh 2015 ), and the dry conditions have persisted since. I will argue that drought conditions

citizens in the state. This was certainly not the first time hazardous waste deposits had been intentionally situated in close proximity to people of color and the poor, but the Warren Country protests brought national media attention to the issue and

fields. Just as work on “sonic habitus” ( Schwarz 2015 ) describes how habituation to sounds are shaped by cultural meanings and collective identity, we offer a similar vision for watering: it is structured around a hydrologic habitus that embodies a

plastic enough to adapt to local needs and the constraints of the several parties employing them, yet be robust enough to maintain a common identity across sites” (393). ES as a boundary object tie multiple perspectives and ideas together, many of which

activists” who are negotiating the boundary between activism and conservative political identities (110). Despite the social capital that these activists possess, however, they are unable to exert much influence on local politics when battling against the

“Walking [in Nature] Is Man's Best Medicine” Recently, DC Park Rx relaunched itself as a new national organization, Park Rx America, that encourages healthcare providers to prescribe outdoor activity in parks and greenspaces as a way of expanding

and Klandermans 2013). In certain contexts, outward-focused anger can strengthen collective identity and solidarity around a common grievance ( Simon and Klandermans 2001 ; see also Eyerman 2007 ; Whittier 2007 ). The collective expression of anger

Indigenous space. As Carroll notes, “the need to maintain land-based practices as critical components of tribal identities continues to make the topic of land reacquisition and consolidation central to the study Indigenous environmental issues, and, despite

rate of poverty despite being located in one of the wealthiest provinces in the country. The governmental social allowance programs were schemes designed at national or provincial levels but there were also municipal programs. Some of these programs