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| Author | : David Naguib Pellow |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2007-08-10 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0262264234 |
Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them. Every year, nations and corporations in the “global North” produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material—inked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage—is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics, David Naguib Pellow examines this practice and charts the emergence of transnational environmental justice movements to challenge and reverse it. Pellow argues that waste dumping across national boundaries from rich to poor communities is a form of transnational environmental inequality that reflects North/South divisions in a globalized world, and that it must be theorized in the context of race, class, nation, and environment. Building on environmental justice studies, environmental sociology, social movement theory, and race theory, and drawing on his own research, interviews, and participant observations, Pellow investigates the phenomenon of global environmental inequality and considers the work of activists, organizations, and networks resisting it. He traces the transnational waste trade from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present day, examining global garbage dumping, the toxic pesticides that are the legacy of the Green Revolution in agriculture, and today's scourge of dumping and remanufacturing high tech and electronics products. The rise of the transnational environmental movements described in Resisting Global Toxics charts a pragmatic path toward environmental justice, human rights, and sustainability.
| Author | : David Naguib Pellow |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2014-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1452943044 |
When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, “all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked,” and decried the “patriarchal nightmare” in the form of “techno-industrial global capitalism.” In Total Liberation, David Naguib Pellow takes up this claim and makes sense of the often tense and violent relationships among humans, ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species, expanding our understanding of inequality and activists’ uncompromising efforts to oppose it. Grounded in interviews with more than one hundred activists, on-the-spot fieldwork, and analyses of thousands of pages of documents, websites, journals, and zines, Total Liberation reveals the ways in which radical environmental and animal rights movements challenge inequity through a vision they call “total liberation.” In its encounters with such infamous activists as scott crow, Tre Arrow, Lauren Regan, Rod Coronado, and Gina Lynn, the book offers a close-up, insider’s view of one of the most important—and feared—social movements of our day. At the same time, it shows how and why the U.S. justice system plays to that fear, applying to these movements measures generally reserved for “jihadists”—with disturbing implications for civil liberties and constitutional freedom. How do the adherents of “total liberation” fight oppression and seek justice for humans, nonhumans, and ecosystems alike? And how is this pursuit shaped by the politics of anarchism and anticapitalism? In his answers, Pellow provides crucial in-depth insight into the origins and social significance of the earth and animal liberation movements and their increasingly common and compelling critique of inequality as a threat to life and a dream of a future characterized by social and ecological justice for all.
| Author | : Simone M. Müller |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2023-08-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0295751827 |
In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after country refused to accept the waste. The ship ended up dumping part of its load in Haiti under false pretenses, and the remaining waste was illegally dumped in the ocean. Two shipping company officials eventually received criminal convictions. Simone M. Müller uses the Khian Sea's voyage as a lens to elucidate the global trade in hazardous waste—the movement of material ranging from outdated consumer products and pesticides to barges filled with all sorts of toxic discards—from the 1970s to the present day, exploring the story's international nodes and detailing the downside of environmental conscientiousness among industrial nations as waste is pushed outward. Müller also highlights the significance of the trip's start in Philadelphia, a city with a significant African American population. The geographical origins shed light on environmental racism within the United States in the context of the global story of environmental justice. Activism in response to the ship's journey set an important precedent, and this book brings together the many voices that shaped the international trade in hazardous waste.
| Author | : Christine Shearer |
| Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Climate change mitigation |
| ISBN | : 1608461289 |
"For the people of Kivalina, Alaska, the price of further climate change denial could be the complete devasation of their lives and culture. Their village must be relocated to survive, but neither the fossil fuel giants nor the U.S. government are willing to take full responsibility."--P. [4] of cover.
| Author | : Rob Nixon |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2011-06-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 067424799X |
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode. In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
| Author | : David Naguib Pellow |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2004-09-17 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 026266187X |
A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago. In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encountered them in the period 1880-2000. What unfolds is a tug of war among social movements, government, and industry over how we manage our waste, who benefits, and who pays the costs. Studies demonstrate that minority and low-income communities bear a disproportionate burden of environmental hazards. Pellow analyzes how and why environmental inequalities are created. He also explains how class and racial politics have influenced the waste industry throughout the history of Chicago and the United States. After examining the roles of social movements and workers in defining, resisting, and shaping garbage disposal in the United States, he concludes that some environmental groups and people of color have actually contributed to environmental inequality. By highlighting conflicts over waste dumping, incineration, landfills, and recycling, Pellow provides a historical view of the garbage industry throughout the life cycle of waste. Although his focus is on Chicago, he places the trends and conflicts in a broader context, describing how communities throughout the United States have resisted the waste industry's efforts to locate hazardous facilities in their backyards. The book closes with suggestions for how communities can work more effectively for environmental justice and safe, sustainable waste management.
| Author | : Bob Torres |
| Publisher | : AK Press |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1904859674 |
Using Marxism, anarchism, and social ecology to explore domination, power, and hierarchy, the author criticizes the use and abuse of animals in capitalist society and argues for the abolition of animal involvement in industry and as a human food source.
| Author | : Julian Agyeman |
| Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2013-05-09 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1780324103 |
This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability. Introducing Just Sustainabilities discusses key topics, such as food justice, sovereignty and urban agriculture; community, space, place(making) and spatial justice; the democratization of our streets and public spaces; how to create culturally inclusive spaces; intercultural cities and social inclusion; green-collar jobs and the just transition; and alternative economic models, such as co-production. With a specific focus on solutions-oriented policy and planning initiatives that specifically address issues of equity and justice within the context of developing sustainable communities, this is the essential introduction to just sustainabilities.
| Author | : Steven Paul Cauchon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Coalitions |
| ISBN | : |
Our oceans continue to fill with toxic waste and plastics as nations struggle to manage the growing amount of consumer generated debris. In facing this particular challenge, the global community has become aware of how this issue disproportionally impacts marginalized communities and requires international solutions that are ultimately grounded in local realities. Certain grassroots organizations on the frontlines of the global waste crises have chosen to form coalitions with powerful international actors, based on the assumption that doing so is necessary for successful campaigns. These international actors can, in turn, take the lead in unilaterally managing local campaigns, or they can work as support mechanisms that encourage local activists to take the lead. What is at stake in such approaches for developing environmental justice? Do transnational organizations empower communities to build long-term mechanisms of sustained environmental justice, or do they undermine this broader goal? In this dissertation I argue that international coalition partners, rather than unilaterally directing local organizations and actors on how to achieve justice should pay more attention the insights and ideas of the frontline communities they support. Based on such insights, I find that coalition strategies that support organizing and capacity development help local stakeholders confront the causes and symptoms associated with waste's negative impacts; whereas mobilizing coalition partners around centrally developed approaches to environmental justice are suited primarily to addressing the symptoms. To underscore this argument I trace the history of two leading transnational environmental non-governmental organizations (TENGOs) fighting toxic waste--the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and Greenpeace. In this analysis I pay particularly attention to how their ideas on environmental justice have evolved and how changes in their support strategies produced different outcomes for marginalized communities. My analysis utilizes primary and secondary documents and is based on participant observations and over 70 semi-structured interviews conducted in California, the Philippines, the Netherlands, and France with GAIA, Greenpeace and their coalition partners. Ultimately, this study reinforces my claim that developing long-term community organizing and empowerment are fundamental for addressing local and global injustices related to waste management and other issues of environmental equity.
| Author | : David Naguib Pellow |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2017-11-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1509525327 |
Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These harms mirror those experienced by marginalized groups across the planet. In this novel book, David Naguib Pellow introduces a new framework for critically analyzing Environmental Justice scholarship and activism. In doing so he extends the field's focus to topics not usually associated with environmental justice, including the Israel/Palestine conflict and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. In doing so he reveals that ecological violence is first and foremost a form of social violence, driven by and legitimated by social structures and discourses. Those already familiar with the discipline will find themselves invited to think about the subject in a new way. This book will be a vital resource for students, scholars, and policy makers interested in transformative approaches to one of the greatest challenges facing humanity and the planet.
