Echoes from the Poisoned Well

Global Memories of Environmental Injustice
Herausgeber: Washington, Sylvia Hood; Rosier, Paul; Goodall, Heather

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an historical examination of environmental justice struggles across the globe from the perspective of environmentally marginalized communities. It is unique in environmental justice histography because it recounts these struggles by integrating the actual voices and memories of communities who grappled with environmental inequalities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780739114322
• ISBN-10: 0739114328
• Artikelnr.: 21117149

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Hood Washington is Founder and Chief Environmental Research Scientist at Environmental Health Research Associates, LLC. Heather Goodall is associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Technology Sydney. Paul C. Rosier is assistant professor of history at Villanova University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Foundations and Origins of Environmental Injustice
Chapter 4 1.Class and Environmental Justice
Chapter 5 2.Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An American
Sampler
Chapter 6 3.Fond Memories and Bitter Struggles: Concerted Resistance to
Environmental Injustices in Post-War Native America
Chapter 7 4.My Soul Looked Back: Environmental Memories of the African in
America, 1600-2000
Chapter 8 5.Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism and Memories of Environmental
Injustice
Chapter 9 6.Racist Property Holdings and Environmental Coalitions:
Addressing Memories of Environmental Injustice
Chapter 10 7.Racialized Spaces & the Emergence of Environmental Injustice
Part 11 North American Memories of Environmental Injustice
Chapter 12 8.Wadin' in the Water: African American Migrant Struggles for
Environmental Equality in Cleveland, Ohio, 1928-1970
Chapter 13 9.Memories of (no)Place: Homelessness and Environmental Justice
Chapter 14 10.Citizens Against Wilderness: Environmentalism and the
Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky Mountains
Chapter 15 11.Urban Renewal and Environmental Justice in New York City
Chapter 16 12.Ferrell Parkway: Conflicting Views of Nature in a Mixed Use
Community
Chapter 17 13.We Come this Far by Faith: Memories of Race, Religion and
Environmental Disparity
Part 18 Indigenous Memories of Environmental Injustice
Chapter 19 14.Suttesája - From a Sacred Sami Site and Natural Spring to a
Water Bottling Plant? The Effects of Colonization in Northern Europe
Chapter 20 15.What Lies Beneath? Cultural Excavation in Neocolonial
Martinique
Chapter 21 16.Plight of the Rara'muri: Crises in Our Backyard
Chapter 22 17.Main Streets and Riverbanks: The Politics of Place in an
Australian River Town
Chapter 23 18.Taking Us For Village Idiots: Two Stories of Ethnicity, Class
and Toxic Waste from Sydney, Australia
Chapter 24 The Mirrar Fight for Jabiluka: Uranium Mining and Indigenous
Australians to 2004
Chapter 25 20.Guardians of the Land: A Maori Community's Environmental
Battles
Chapter 26 21.Local History and the Legitimation of Protest in Taipei
Chapter 27 22.Remembering the Mother River: The Impact of Environmental
Injustice on National Identity in Contemporary China
Chapter 28 23.Environmental Justice and Popular Protest in Thailand
Chapter 29 "Aiee, our fields will be destroyed": Dubious Science and
Peasant Environmental Practices in Madziwa, Zimbabwe
Chapter 30 25.Shell International, the Ogoni People and Environmental
Injustice in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: The Challenge of Securing
Environmental Justice in an Oil-based Economy
Chapter 31 26.The Community, Industry and the Quest for a Clean Vaal River
1997-2004
Chapter 32 Epilogue