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Echoes from the Poisoned Well - Global Memories of Environmental Injustice

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Sylvia Hood Washington; Heather Goodall and Paul Rosier - Foreword by Martin Melosi - Other Jeffrey Stine - Contributions by Four Arrows; K Animashaun Ducre Anya Bernstein; Marja K. Bulmer; Lois Gibbs; Renée K. Gosson; Peggy James; Jacqui Katona Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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Authors Heather Goodall, Paul Rosier, Sylvia Hood Washington, Sylvia Hood (EDT)/ Goodall Washington
Assisted by Heather Goodall (Editor), Paul Rosier (Editor), Paul C. Rosier (Editor), Sylvia Hood Washington (Editor)
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.03.2006
 
EAN 9780739109120
ISBN 978-0-7391-0912-0
No. of pages 433
Dimensions 159 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works

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