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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism : The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement.
Title:
Environmental Justice and Environmentalism : The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement.
Author:
Sandler, Ronald.
ISBN:
9780262282918
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Series:
Urban and Industrial Environments
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 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 -- Appendix A Principles of Environmental Justice -- Appendix B Sierra Club Guidelines of Environmental Justice Grassroots Organizing -- Appendix C Principles of Working Together -- Index.
Abstract:
Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriented environmental justice movement and mainstream environmental organizations.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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