Echoes from the Poisoned Well Global Memories of Environmental Injustice

by Washington, Sylvia Hood; Goodall, Heather; Rosier, Paul; Melosi, Martin; Stine, Jeffrey; Arrows, Four; Ducre Anya Bernstein, K Animashaun; Bulmer, Marja K.; Gibbs, Lois; Gosson, Renée K.; James, Peggy; Katona, Jacqui; Kuokkanen, Rauna; Lawson, Bill E.; Mi

• ISBN13: 9780739109120
• ISBN10: 073910912X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-07
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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, and Heather Goodall
Part One: Foundations and Origins of Environmental Injustice
1 Citizen Activism for Environmental Health: The Growth of a Powerful New Grassroots Health Movement	3	(14)
Lois Gibbs
2 Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling	17	(18)
Nancy C. Unger
3 Fond Memories and Bitter Struggles: Concerted Resistance to Environmental Injustices in Postwar Native America	35	(20)
Paul C. Rosier
4 "My Soul Looked Back": Environmental Memories of the African in America, 1600-2000	55	(18)
Sylvia Hood Washington
5 Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism, and Memories of Environmental Injustice	73	(24)
Heather Goodall
6 Racist Property Holdings and Environmental Coalitions: Addressing Memories of Environmental Injustice	97	(12)
Bill E. Lawson
7 Racialized Spaces and the Emergence of Environmental Injustice	109	(18)
K. Animashaun Ducre
Part Two: North American Memories of Environmental Injustice
8 Wadin' in the Water: African American Migrant Struggles for Environmental Equality in Cleveland, Ohio, 1928-1970	127	(16)
Sylvia Hood Washington
9 Memories of (No)Place: Homelessness and Environmental Justice	143	(14)
Cynthia J. Miller
10 Citizens against Wilderness: Environmentalism and the Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky Mountains	157	(14)
Stephen Wallace Taylor
11 Environmental Justice, Urban Planning, and Community Memory in New York City	171	(12)
Julie Sze
12 Ferrell Parkway: Conflicting Views of Nature in a Mixed Use Community	183	(12)
Jane Bloodworth Rowe
13 "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
14 Suttesája: From a Sacred Sarni Site and Natural Spring to a Water Bottling Plant? The Effects of Colonization in Northern Europe	209	(16)
Rauna Kuokkanen with Marja K. Bulmer
15 What Lies Beneath? Cultural Excavation in Neocolonial Martinique	225	(20)
Renée Gosson
16 Plight of the Rara'muri: Crises in Our Backyard	245	(10)
Four Arrows (aka Don Trent Jacobs)
17 Main Streets and Riverbanks: The Politics of Place in an Australian River Town	255	(16)
Heather Goodall
18 "Taking Us for Village Idiots": Two Stories of Ethnicity, Class, and Toxic Waste from Sydney, Australia	271	(14)
Peggy James
19 The Mirrar Fight for Jabiluka: Uranium Mining and Indigenous Australians to 2004	285	(14)
Jacqui Katona
20 Guardians of the Land: A Maori Community's Environmental Battles	299	(12)
Rachael Selby and Pataka Moore
21 Parameters of Legitimation and the Environmental Future of a Taipei Neighborhood	311	(20)
Anya Bernstein
22 Remembering the Mother River: The Impact of Environmental Injustice on National Identity in Contemporary China	331	(14)
Jane Sayers
23 Environmental Justice and Popular Protest in Thailand	345	(10)
John Walsh
24 "Aiee, Our Fields Will Be Destroyed": Dubious Science and Peasant Environmental Practices in Madziwa, Zimbabwe	355	(16)
Guy Thompson
25 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
26 The Community, Industry, and the Quest for a Clean Vaal River 1997-2004	389	(20)
Elise and Johann Tempelhoff
Epilogue	409	(2)
Jeffrey K. Stine
Maps	411	(4)
Index	415	(10)
About the Contributors	425