Patrick Novotny

Where We Live, Work and Play (eBook, PDF)

The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today. Issues range from higher levels of poisonous wastes, carbon dioxide, and ozone, to greater than normal incidences of asthma and lead poisoning. The environmental justice movement, which has emerged in working class and low-income African American and Latino communities since the early 1990s, is an effort that is reinterpreting the definition of the environment as where we live, work, and play to connect new constituencies traditionally outside of the postwar environmental movement. Novotny documents this expanding constituency through case studies of four community groups ranging from South Central Los Angeles to Louisiana.

Environmental racism is understood as yet another type of discrimination which results in a high incidence of environmental concerns in poorer communities due to what many activists see as discriminatory land use practices, decisions by industry that intentionally locate hazardous wastes in these communities, and the uneven enforcement of environmental regulations by federal, state, and local officials. Community leaders have added environmental causes to their fight against unemployment, impoverishment, and substandard housing. This study explores various attempts to put a halt to illegal practices and to broaden public awareness of the issues involved.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313096570
• Artikelnr.: 37841066

Autorenporträt

Patrick Novotny, PhD, is a professor and researcher in the field of American politics and a faculty member at Georgia Southern University since 1995.

Inhaltsangabe

From Warren County To the Environmental Justice Movement Where We Live,
Work, and Play: Framing, Political Mobilization and Environmentalism in the
Environmental Justice Movement Race, Ethnicity and the Politics of the
Environmental Justice Movement The SouthWest Organizing Project Working
Class Politics and Environmental Consciousness in the Environmental Justice
Movement The Labor/Community Strategy Center "More Political Than
Chemical": Toward a Cultural and Political Perspective of the Environmental
Justice Movement Conclusion: "The Environmental Crisis Impacts Us All but
Not Equally": Language, Ideology and the Contested Narrative of the
Environment in the Environmental Justice Movement Index