Echoes from the Poisoned Well Global Memories of Environmental Injustice,9780739114322

Echoes from the Poisoned Well Global Memories of Environmental Injustice

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ISBN13: 9780739114322
ISBN10: 0739114328
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-23
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary

This book is an historical examination of environmental justice struggles across the globe from the perspective of environmentally marginalized communities. It is unique in environmental justice histography because it recounts these struggles by integrating the actual voices and memories of communities who grappled with environmental inequalities.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Martin V. Melosi
Introduction xiii
Sylvia Hood Washington
Paul C. Rosier
Heather Goodall
Part One: Foundations and Origins of Environmental Injustice
Citizen Activism for Environmental Health: The Growth of a Powerful New Grassroots Health Movement
3(14)
Lois Gibbs
Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling
17(18)
Nancy C. Unger
Fond Memories and Bitter Struggles: Concerted Resistance to Environmental Injustices in Postwar Native America
35(20)
Paul C. Rosier
``My Soul Looked Back'': Environmental Memories of the African in America, 1600--2000
55(18)
Sylvia Hood Washington
Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism, and Memories of Environmental Injustice
73(24)
Heather Goodall
Racist Property Holdings and Environmental Coalitions: Addressing Memories of Environmental Injustice
97(12)
Bill E. Lawson
Racialized Spaces and the Emergence of Environmental Injustice
109(18)
K. Animashaun Ducre
Part Two: North American Memories of Environmental Injustice
Wadin' in the Water: African American Migrant Struggles for Environmental Equality in Cleveland, Ohio, 1928--1970
127(16)
Sylvia Hood Washington
Memories of (No)Place: Homelessness and Environmental Justice
143(14)
Cynthia J. Miller
Citizens against Wilderness: Environmentalism and the Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky Mountains
157(14)
Stephen Wallace Taylor
Environmental Justice, Urban Planning, and Community Memory in New York City
171(12)
Julie Sze
Ferrell Parkway: Conflicting Views of Nature in a Mixed Use Community
183(12)
Jane Bloodworth Rowe
``We Come This Far by Faith'': Memories of Race, Religion, and Environmental Disparity
195(14)
Sylvia Hood Washington
Part Three: Indigenous Memories of Environmental Injustice
Suttesaja: From a Sacred Sami Site and Natural Spring to a Water Bottling Plant? The Effects of Colonization in Northern Europe
209(16)
Rauna Kuokkanen
Marja K. Bulmer
What Lies Beneath? Cultural Excavation in Neocolonial Martinique
225(20)
Renee Gosson
Plight of the Rara'muri: Crises in Our Backyard Four Arrows (aka Don Trent Jacobs)
245(10)
Main Streets and Riverbanks: The Politics of Place in an Australian River Town
255(16)
Heather Goodall
``Taking Us for Village Idiots'': Two Stories of Ethnicity, Class, and Toxic Waste from Sydney, Australia
271(14)
Peggy James
The Mirrar Fight for Jabiluka: Uranium Mining and Indigenous Australians to 2004
285(14)
Jacqui Katona
Guardians of the Land: A Maori Community's Environmental Battles
299(12)
Rachael Selby
Pataka Moore
Parameters of Legitimation and the Environmental Future of a Taipei Neighborhood
311(20)
Anya Bernstein
Remembering the Mother River: The Impact of Environmental Injustice on National Identity in Contemporary China
331(14)
Jane Sayers
Environmental Justice and Popular Protest in Thailand
345(10)
John Walsh
``Aiee, Our Fields Will Be Destroyed'': Dubious Science and Peasant Environmental Practices in Madziwa, Zimbabwe
355(16)
Guy Thompson
Shell International, the Ogoni People, and Environmental Injustice in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: The Challenge of Securing Environmental Justice in an Oil-based Economy
371(18)
Phia Steyn
The Community, Industry, and the Quest for a Clean Vaal River 1997--2004
389(20)
Elise
Johann Tempelhoff
Epilogue 409(2)
Jeffrey K. Stine
Maps 411(4)
Index 415(10)
About the Contributors 425

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