Struggles for environmental justice involve communities negotiating the complex dynamics of agency and solidarity when mobilising against powerful forces which advocate 'development', driven by increasingly neoliberal imperatives. Contributors include a wide range of international scholars and activists whose critique of the practices of those engaged in the pursuit of justice inform how community, development and environment should interact.
Struggles for environmental justice involve communities negotiating the complex dynamics of agency and solidarity when mobilising against powerful forces which advocate 'development', driven by increasingly neoliberal imperatives. Contributors include a wide range of international scholars and activists whose critique of the practices of those engaged in the pursuit of justice inform how community, development and environment should interact.
Anne Harley is a Lecturer in Adult education and development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Previously, she undertook research for the National Land Commission, and the Black Sash. Anne also heads up the Paulo Freire project in the Adult Education discipline. Eurig Scandrett is a Senior Lecturer in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University, Scotland and a trade union representative with University and College Union. He previously worked in environmental biology, community work, adult education and was Head of Community Action at Friends of the Earth Scotland.
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Chapter 1: Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett Chapter 2: Resisting Shell in Ireland: making and remaking alliances between communities, movements and activists; Hilary Darcy and Laurence Cox Chapter 3: 'No tenemos armas pero tenemos dignidad': learning from the civic strike in Buenaventura, Colombia; Patrick Kane with Berenice Celeita Chapter 4: No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, Eastern Slovakia; Richard Filcák and Daniel skobla Chapter 5: Tackling waste in Scotland: incineration, business and politics vs community activism; Jennifer Mackay Chapter 6: An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement; Jonathan Langdon Chapter 7: 'Mines come to bring poverty': extractive industry in the life of the people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Mark Butler Chapter 8: Ecological Justice for Palestine; Simon I. Awad Chapter 9: Learning and teaching: reflections on an environmental justice school for activists in South Africa; Bobby Peek and Jeanne Prinsloo Chapter 10: The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine; Abeer al-Butmeh, Zayneb al-Shalalfeh and Mahmoud Zwahre with Eurig Scandrett Chapter 11: Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people's movements; Eurig Scandrett, Dharmesh Shah and Shweta Narayan Chapter 12: Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health; Kathy Jenkins and Sara Marsden Conclusion; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett
Chapter 1: Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett Chapter 2: Resisting Shell in Ireland: making and remaking alliances between communities, movements and activists; Hilary Darcy and Laurence Cox Chapter 3: 'No tenemos armas pero tenemos dignidad': learning from the civic strike in Buenaventura, Colombia; Patrick Kane with Berenice Celeita Chapter 4: No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, Eastern Slovakia; Richard Filcák and Daniel skobla Chapter 5: Tackling waste in Scotland: incineration, business and politics vs community activism; Jennifer Mackay Chapter 6: An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement; Jonathan Langdon Chapter 7: 'Mines come to bring poverty': extractive industry in the life of the people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Mark Butler Chapter 8: Ecological Justice for Palestine; Simon I. Awad Chapter 9: Learning and teaching: reflections on an environmental justice school for activists in South Africa; Bobby Peek and Jeanne Prinsloo Chapter 10: The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine; Abeer al-Butmeh, Zayneb al-Shalalfeh and Mahmoud Zwahre with Eurig Scandrett Chapter 11: Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people's movements; Eurig Scandrett, Dharmesh Shah and Shweta Narayan Chapter 12: Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health; Kathy Jenkins and Sara Marsden Conclusion; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett
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