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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger.

By: Series: American studies now ; 11.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2020Copyright date: 2020Description: x, 144 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520300736
  • 0520300734
  • 9780520300743
  • 0520300742
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Environmental justice in a moment of danger.DDC classification:
  • 363.7 23
LOC classification:
  • GE220 .S94 2020
Contents:
Introduction. Environmental justice at the crossroads of danger and freedom -- This movement of movements -- Environmental justice encounters -- Restoring environmental justice -- Conclusion : American optimism, skepticism, and environmental justice.
Summary: "We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the US and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does the moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice packed, with cautiously hopeful stories of struggle for the future that we need now"-- Provided by publisher
List(s) this item appears in: 2022 New Titles
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Introduction. Environmental justice at the crossroads of danger and freedom -- This movement of movements -- Environmental justice encounters -- Restoring environmental justice -- Conclusion : American optimism, skepticism, and environmental justice.

"We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the US and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does the moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice packed, with cautiously hopeful stories of struggle for the future that we need now"-- Provided by publisher

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