From Environmental Loss to Resistance - Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America

Explores the ways in which people counter or cope with feelings of despair, leverage action for positive change, and formulate pathways to achieve environmental justice goals. These essays place contemporary environmental struggles in a critical context that emphasizes justice, connection, and reconciliation.

List of contents

• Foreword by: Carol J.Adams
• 1. Environmental Loss and Eco-Sabotage: A(not so) radical response (Michael Loadenthal)
• 2. Environmental Policy and Neoliberal Politics: Negotiating beyond the 'Third Way' (Lea Rekow)
• 3. There's Trauma in My Veins: Displacement, States of Exception, and the Holocaust (Jennifer Grubbs)
• 4. Environmentalist Resistance in the World of Infrastructural Brutalism (Michael Truscello)
• 5. Grief, Grit, and Gratitude: Finding Resilience in the Face of Climate Change (Jan Inglis)
• 6. Healing the Effects of the Columbia River Treaty (Eileen Delehanty Pearkes)
• 7. Water Justice in the U.S.: Confronting the crisis point (Zoe Roller)
• 8. Border Walls and Bridging Work: Cultivating Resilience in a Space of Control (Randall Amster)

Product details

• Authors: Michael Rekow Loadenthal
• Assisted by: Michael Loadenthal (Editor), Lea Rekow (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781625345059
• ISBN: 978-1-62534-505-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History