Resisting Global Toxics Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice

Name: Resisting Global Toxics Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice
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ISBN: 9780262662017

ISBN-10: 0262662019

ISBN-13: 9780262662017

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Naguib Pellow

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Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material--linked 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,…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

David Naguib Pellow is Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Among his books are the award-winning Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press, 2002) and Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (coedited with Robert Brulle; MIT Press, 2005.)



Acknowledgments



Environment, Modernity, Inequality



Race, Class, Environment, and Resistance



Transnational Movement Networks for Environmental Justice



The Global Village Dump: Trashing the Planet



Ghosts of the Green Revolution: Pesticides Poison the Global South



Electronic Waste: The "Clean Industry" Exports Its Trash



Theorizing Global Environmental Inequality and Global Social Movements for Human Rights and Environmental Justice



Principles of Environmental Justice


Abbreviations and Acronyms


Notes


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Index