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Echoes from the Poisoned Well Global Memories of Environmental Injustice

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ISBN-10: 0739114328

ISBN-13: 9780739114322

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sylvia Hood Washington, Heather Goodall, Paul Rosier, Martin Melosi, Jeffrey Stine

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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.
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Book details

List price: $70.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 2/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 458
Size: 7.88" wide x 8.94" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Martin Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is author of several books, including the award-winning The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present.

Foreword
Introduction
Foundations and Origins of Environmental Injustice
Citizen Activism for Environmental Health: The Growth of a Powerful New Grassroots Health Movement
Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling
Fond Memories and Bitter Struggles: Concerted Resistance to Environmental Injustices in Postwar Native America
"My Soul Looked Back": Environmental Memories of the African in America, 1600-2000
Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism, and Memories of Environmental Injustice
Racist Property Holdings and Environmental Coalitions: Addressing Memories of Environmental Injustice
Racialized Spaces and the Emergence of Environmental Injustice
North American Memories of Environmental Injustice
Wadin' in the Water: African American Migrant Struggles for Environmental Equality in Cleveland, Ohio, 1928-1970
Memories of (No)Place: Homelessness and Environmental Justice
Citizens against Wilderness: Environmentalism and the Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky Mountains
Environmental Justice, Urban Planning, and Community Memory in New York City
Ferrell Parkway: Conflicting Views of Nature in a Mixed Use Community
"We Come This Far by Faith": Memories of Race, Religion, and Environmental Disparity
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
What Lies Beneath? Cultural Excavation in Neocolonial Martinique
Plight of the Rara' muri: Crises in Our Backyard
Main Streets and Riverbanks: The Politics of Place in an Australian River Town
"Taking Us for Village Idiots": Two Stories of Ethnicity, Class, and Toxic Waste from Sydney, Australia
The Mirrar Fight for Jabiluka: Uranium Mining and Indigenous Australians to 2004
Guardians of the Land: A Maori Community's Environmental Battles
Parameters of Legitimation and the Environmental Future of a Taipei Neighborhood
Remembering the Mother River: The Impact of Environmental Injustice on National Identity in Contemporary China
Environmental Justice and Popular Protest in Thailand
"Aiee, Our Fields Will Be Destroyed": Dubious Science and Peasant Environmental Practices in Madziwa, Zimbabwe
Shell International, the Ogoni People, and Environmental Injustice in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: The Challenge of Securing Environmental Justice in an Oil-based Economy
The Community, Industry, and the Quest for a Clean Vaal River 1997-2004
Epilogue
Maps
Index
About the Contributors