Slow Harms and Citizen Action - Herrera, Veronica (Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Politic
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Slow Harms and Citizen Action chronicles the struggle against toxic exposure in urban Latin America. By examining cities in Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, Veronica Herrera shows how local movements fighting for pollution remediation can ally with resourced outsiders for impactful change. Moreover, Herrera illustrates how the most successful environmental movements occurred in settings where established human rights movements had previously helped dismantle state-sponsored militarized violence. By unpacking human rights movements as thoroughfares for environmental activism, Slow Harms and…mehr

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Slow Harms and Citizen Action chronicles the struggle against toxic exposure in urban Latin America. By examining cities in Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, Veronica Herrera shows how local movements fighting for pollution remediation can ally with resourced outsiders for impactful change. Moreover, Herrera illustrates how the most successful environmental movements occurred in settings where established human rights movements had previously helped dismantle state-sponsored militarized violence. By unpacking human rights movements as thoroughfares for environmental activism, Slow Harms and Citizen Action sheds new light on the struggles for environmental justice in Latin America.
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Veronica Herrera is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in urban politics, environmental policy, and social mobilization, and is the author of the award-winning book, Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera has served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. Her articles have been published in numerous outlets such as Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, and World Development.