The Environmental Justice Reader – Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy Adamson Evans

The Environmental Justice ReaderPolitics, Poetics, and Pedagogy\nAuthor(s): Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, Rachel Stein\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Arizona Press, United States\nImprint: University of Arizona Press\nISBN-13: 9780816522071, 978-0816522071\nSynopsis\nFrom the First National People of Color Congress on Environmental Leadership to WTO street protests of the new millennium, environmental justice activists have challenged the mainstream movement by linking social inequalities to the uneven distribution of environmental dangers. Grassroots movements in poor communities and communities of color strive to protect neighborhoods and worksites from environmental degradation and struggle to gain equal access to the natural resources that sustain their cultures.\n\nThis book examines environmental justice in its social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions in both local and global contexts, with special attention paid to intersections of race, gender, and cl.