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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism
副标题: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
ISBN: 9780262693400
出版社: The MIT Press
出版年: 2007-2-28
页数: 366
定价: USD 27.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Although the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement would seem to be natural allies, their relationship over the years has often been characterized by conflict and division. The environmental justice movement has charged the mainstream environmental movement with racism and elitism and has criticized its activist agenda on the grounds that it values wilderness over people. Environmental justice advocates have called upon environmental organizations to act on environmental injustice and address racism and classism in their own hiring and organizational practices, lobbying agenda, and political platforms. This book examines the current relationship between the two movements in both conceptual and practical terms and explores the possibilities for future collaboration.In ten original essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider such topics as the relationship between the two movements' ethical commitments and activist goals, instances of successful cooperation in U.S. contexts, and the challenges posed to both movements by globalization and climate change. They examine the possibility and desirability of one unified movement as opposed to two complementary ones by means of analyses and case studies; these include a story of asbestos hazards that begins in a Montana mine and ends with the release of asbestos insulation into the air of Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center. This book, part of a necessary rethinking of the relationship between the two movements, shows that effective, mutually beneficial alliances can advance the missions of both.Contributors:Kim Allen, J. Robert Cox, Vinci Daro, Kevin DeLuca, Giovanna Di Chiro, Daniel Faber, Dorothy Holland, Dale Jamieson, M. Nils Peterson, Markus John Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, J. Timmons Roberts, Ronald Sandler, Steve Schwarze, Peter Wenz
作者简介
Ronald Sandler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University.
Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture at Indiana University.
目录
Introduction Revisiting the Environmental Justice Challenge to Environmentalism
I Conceptual Issues
1 A Wilderness Environmentalism Manifesto: Contesting the Infinite Self-Absorption of Humans
2 Does Environmentalism Promote Injustice for the Poor?
3 The Heart of Environmentalism
II U.S. Environments
4 Becoming an Environmental Justice Activist
5 A More “Productive” Environmental Justice Politics: Movement Alliances in Massachusetts for Clean Production and Regional Equity
6 Silences and Possibilities of Asbestos Activism: Stories from Libby and Beyond
7 Moving toward Sustainability: Integrating Social Practice and Material Process
III International Environments
8 Golden Tropes and Democratic Betrayals: Prospects for the Environment and Environmental Justice in Neoliberal “Free Trade” Agreements
9 Indigenous Peoples and Biocolonialism: Defining the “Science of Environmental Justice” in the Century of the Gene
10 Globalizing Environmental Justice
Conclusion Working Together and Working Apart
