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From the ground up : environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement /

Publisher Fact Sheet Critically examines the eruption of the environmental justice movement by combining storytelling & case studies from communities around the U.S. that have chosen to stand up against corporate polluters. Annotation When Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cole, Luke W., 1962-2009 (Autor), Foster, Sheila R., 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2001.
Colección:Critical America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: we speak for ourselves: the struggle of Kettleman City
  • Introduction
  • A history of the environmental justice movement
  • The political economy of environmental racism: Chester Residents Concerned for Quality of Life
  • Environmental racism: beyond the distributive paradigm
  • Buttonwillow: resistance and disillusion in rural California
  • Processes of struggle: grassroots resistance and the structure of envrionmental decision making
  • In defense of Mother Earth: the Indigenous Envrionmental Network
  • Transformative politics.