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Echoes from the Poisoned Well

Global Memories of Environmental Injustice

von: Sylvia Hood Washington, Heather Goodall, Paul Rosier, Martin Melosi, Jeffrey Stine
67,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	07.03.2006
ISBN/EAN:	9780739154472
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	458

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Titelbeschreibung

The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washington's work, on Paul Rosier's study of Native American environmentalism, and on Heather Goodall's work with Indigenous Australians to seek out wider perspectives on the relationships between memories of injustice and demands for environmental justice in the global arena. This collection contributes to environmental historiography by providing 'bottom up' environmental histories in a field which so far has mostly emphasized a 'top down' perspective, in which the voices of those most heavily burdened by environmental degradation are often ignored. The essays here serve as a modest step in filling this lacuna in environmental history by providing the viewpoints of peoples and of indigenous communities which traditionally have been neglected while linking them to a global context of environmental activism and education. Scholars of environmental justice, as much as the activists in their respective struggle, face challenges in working comparatively to locate the differences between local struggles as well as to celebrate their common ground. In this sense, the chapters in this book represent the opening up of spaces for future conversations rather than any simple ending to the discussion. The contributions, however, reflect growing awareness of that common ground and a rising need to employ linked experiences and strategies in combating environmental injustice on a global scale, in part by mimicking the technology and tools employed by global corporations that endanger the environmental integrity of a diverse set of homelands and ecologies.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

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
 Chapter 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
 Chapter 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
 Chapter 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

Autorenportrait

Sylvia Hood Washington is Founder and Chief Environmental Research Scientist at Environmental Health Research Associates, LLC. 

Heather Goodall is associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Technology Sydney. 

Paul C. Rosier is assistant professor of history at Villanova University.