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.

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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 teaches environmental ethics and environmental justice at Depaul University and African American history at the University of Maryland, University College. She sits on the University of Illinois-Chicago's Environmental Justice board and directs the national project on Environmental Justice and Environmental Health co-sponsored by the Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. and the USCCB's Catholic Coalition for Children and a Safe Environment (CASE). 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