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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020032503321

Titolo

Spaces of environmental justice / / edited by Ryan Holifield, Michael Porter and Gordon Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010

ISBN

1-282-55115-9

9786612551154

1-4443-2276-1

1-4443-2277-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Antipode book series

Altri autori (Persone)

HolifieldRyan

PorterMichael

WalkerGordon <1944->

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Environmental justice

Social justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Spaces of Environmental Justice; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Spaces of Environmental Justice-Frameworks for Critical Engagement; Part I: Frameworks for Critical Environmental Justice Research; 1 Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple Spatialities of Environmental Justice; 2 Actor-network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology; 3 Gendered Geographies of Environmental Injustice; 4 Acknowledging the Racial State: An Agenda for Environmental Justice Research

Part II: Spaces for Critical Environmental Justice Research5 Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re-imagination of the Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana; 6 Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to Investigate Waste-related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination Communities; 7 Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of Environmental Justice in North-east England; 8 Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta; Index



Sommario/riassunto

In this cutting-edge volume, leading scholars examine a diverse range of environmental inequalities from around the world.Shows how far the field has moved beyond its original focus on uneven distributions of pollution in the USA Considers the influence of critical geographical and social theory on environmental justice studiesExamines a range of possibilities for future research directionsExplores the challenges of investigating and pursuing environmental justice at a time of rapid economic and environmental change