The nature of hope : grassroots organizing, environmental justice, and political change
Title:
The nature of hope : grassroots organizing, environmental justice, and political change
Author:
Miller, Char, 1951- editor.
ISBN:
9781607328476
9781607329077
Physical Description:
viii, 353 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series:
Intersections in environmental justice
Intersections in environmental justice.
General Note:
Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than thirty books and a regular contributor of essays, commentary, and reviews to professional journals, newspapers, and online media. He is a Senior Fellow at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation and a Fellow of the Forest History Society.
Jeff Crane is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington, where he also led the creation of Our Common Home Farms, a community farming program. He is the author of three books and various journal articles and lectures on river restoration, climate change, and food justice.
Contents:
Introduction / Building agency. Movements without leaders : how to make change on an overheating planet / An intersectional reappraisal of the environmental justice movement / Power to the people : grassroots advocacy for environmental protection and democratic governance / Spatial dynamics. Returning to the slough : environmental justice in Portland, Oregon / Streetscape environmentalism : flood control, social justice and political power in modern San Antonio, 1921-1974 / When the sky opened : the transformation of Tachikawa Air Base into Showa Kinen Park / Friendship Park : environmental placemaking at the US-Mexico border / Healthy politics. From bomb to bone : children and the politics of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty / Fear, knowledge, and activism : toxic anxieties in the 1980s / Raising change : community farming as long-term ecological protest / Building sustainable communities in Los Angeles : intersections of worker power and environmental justice / Challenging resources. Confronting Kennecott in the Cascades / Oil and water : fracking politics in South Texas / New dawn for energy justice in North Carolina / The Dakota Access Pipeline, environmental justice, and US settler colonialism
Abstract:
"Examining the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level and how environmental and political cultures emerge in context of conflict. Considers how ordinary people coalesce to demand environmental justice and highlights the powerful role of intersectionality in shaping the on-the-ground dynamics of protest and social change"--Provided by publisher.