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Hyde park:

Hyde Park's residents are predominantly African American because of swampy grounds that made land prices more affordable. The area is surrounded by industrial factories producing chemical contaminants which often leaks into the swamps. The article claims that those scientists who determined chemical contamination found in Hyde Park soils samples were not poisonous to human lives were biased.

Lab results derived in a controlled situation might differ in the real-world; analysis is mainly based on expensive tests on, for example, lab rodents that are genetically similar and not diverse. The human results are based on white male workers as a standard, not including people of color, also not considering long-term impacts. The other problem with these assessments was that they were studying one factory and overlooked that many industrial sites encircled the entire area. People were constantly exposed to chemical contaminants because they worked for these factories and consumed contaminated underground water and the factory's wood products to fuel their wood-burning stoves.

The scientist didn't examine test results based on the social context of Hyde Park, where many people were suffering from diabetes and hypertension because of their economic situation, which affects the human body's toxic exposure process. It is also important to consider that health officials might be biased towards stereotypes about human health, linking health problems to unhealthy habits like smoking, poor eating, etc. Moreover, financial arrangements and political motivations might also affect the results.

After other scientists collected samples from deeper soil, they found toxic components for human health. The aftermath of such discovery is also severe for people who suffer from it. There is no access to good medical services and losing a job because of newfound health issues is a real possibility. The Anthropologist can play an essential role in these situations by mediating government agencies and people's relationships while channeling victims' rightful anger to claim their rights properly. Furthermore, the role can be extended to assisting environmentalists in assessing environmental risks and eventually seek justice by forming a coalition of local and professional scientific expertise to develop a reasonable solution toward an environmentally just society.

San Evaristo:

Feminist political ecologists discovered that environmental management research is mostly on women. It may cause neglect of men's dominant roles in environmental resources management and put pressure on women.  In the communities that men consider breadwinners and women are expected to be caregivers, men have an opportunity to form social capital based on their gender; they socialize, communicate, support each other and build trust in these social groups. In San Evaristo near Baja California Sur, Mexico Hunting, fishing and land ownership is the main source of income. Women are excluded from these activities even though they might have a land claim or are fishing for fun. The fishers are mostly men that work fourteen hours together in a boat so close together. They have their own ways of communication to build trust.

They tell harmless lies or brag about their daily earnings, which leads to building intimacy and avoiding further conflict that might happen. It became an important social skill even more than before when MPA( Marine protection Atlas) limited their access to fishing sites by announcing some of them as protected water. Men needed to bond their relationship when they became rivals for resources. They build trust by teasing their masculinity and feminizing it by subjugating women and bragging about their sexual power. For example, they encourage a researcher to go to a strip club; they pretend to betray their wives and do it every time. Eventually, they confessed that they were lying about it to prove themselves sexually powerful.

Women find these men's behaviors normal because they don't have access to the gender-based group to socialize and are limited to doing household work. When men build their own world distant from women and don't let any women in it, it is difficult for female conservationists to interact with them. Also, the male conservationist role in interacting with this male-dominant social capita is problematic.