Concrete Jungles Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean

Informationen zum Autor Rivke Jaffe is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Klappentext Concrete Jungles explores the hidden geographies of injustice in the Caribbean islands, demonstrating how mainstream environmentalism reflects and reproduces racial and economic inequalities. Zusammenfassung Concrete Jungles explores the hidden geographies of injustice in the Caribbean islands! demonstrating how mainstream environmentalism reflects and reproduces racial and economic inequalities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Caribbean Cities in Comparative Perspective; Chapter Three: Excavating the Traces of Empire; Chapter Four: Fragmented Cities; Chapter Five: Urban Naturalisms: Pollution, Space and Power; Chapter Six: Uptown Environmentalism; Chapter Seven: Downtown Environmentalism; Chapter Eight: Coda

Product details

• Authors: Rivke Jaffe, JAFFE
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 12.05.2016
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780190273583
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027358-3
• Pages: 200
• Series: Global and Comparative Ethnogr; Global and Comparative Ethnography; Global and Comparative Ethnogr
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Caribbean islands, Pollution & threats to the environment, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Pollution and threats to the environment, Development and environmental geography