Working on earth : class and environmental justice / / edited by Christina Robertson and Jennifer Westerman

• Pubblicazione: Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.700973
• Soggetto topico: Environmental justice; Human ecology; Working class; Working class - Social conditions; Working class - Canada; Working class - United States
• Classificazione: NAT011000
• Persona (resp. second.): RobertsonChristina <1960->; WestermanJennifer
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Toward a Working-Class Ecology; Part I - Working for a Living: Class, Justice, and Environment; 1 - Raining in Vietnam: The Personal Politics of Climate Justice; 2 - Working in Nature, Playing in Wilderness: Race, Class, and Environmental History in the Apostle Islands; 3 - "The Rich Go Higher": The Geography of Rural Development, Fire Management, and Environmental Justice in Utah's Wildland Urban Interface; 4 - Beyond Boom and Bust: Recovering the Place of Kootenay Working-Class Stories ; Part II - The Ways We Work: Toxic Consequences5 - Requiem for Landscape; 6 - "Clean Air, Clean Water, and Jobs Forever": Filming Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining; 7 - Bright Lights, Big City Ills: Artificial Light and the Night Shift; 8 - From Orchards to Cubicles: Work and Space in the Silicon Valley; Part III - The Workers and the Land: Toward a Just and Sustainable Future; 9 - "It's a Different World": Using Oral Histories to Explore Working-Class Perceptions of Environmental Change; 10 - Working Wilderness: Ranching, Proprietary Rights to Nature, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change ; 11 - "Survival Is Triumph Enough": Class, Environmental Consciousness, and the Southern Memoir12 - Reinhabiting the Poor Farm in Memory and Landscape; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice is a collection of scholarly essays that examine the relationship between the exploitation of the working-class and environment injustices in the US and Canada. These scholars, from the fields of environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, seek to assess the current unprecedented rates of environmental degradation, expanding economic inequality, and wide-spread social injustice. Without dividing worker from wilderness, or labor from landscape, they present solutions to the global climate crisis. Ultimately, this book advances the idea of a working-class ecology that must be an integral part of achieving just and sustainable human development"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Working on earth
• ISBN: 0-87417-964-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826589703321
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