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Sze shows that the linkage of planning and public health in New York City goes back to the nineteenth century's sanitation movement, and she looks at the city's history of garbage, sewage, and sludge management. She analyzes the influence of race, family, and gender politics on asthma activism and examines community activists' responses to garbage privatization and energy deregulation. Finally, she looks at how activist groups have begun to shift from fighting particular siting and land use decisions to engaging in a larger process of community planning and community-based research projects. Drawing extensively on fieldwork and interviews with community members and activists, Sze illuminates the complex mix of local and global issues that fuels environmental justice activism.
About the Author:
Julie Sze is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the Environmental Justice Project at the John Muir Institute for the Environment, University of California, Davis
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"Drawing deftly on scholarship in urban sociology, geography, and American studies, Julie Sze presents an astute and generative analysis of recent struggles for environmental justice in New York. At a time when neoliberalism and privatization increasingly impose new hazards and injuries on communities of color, Noxious New York reveals how activist groups have been able to develop an entirely new calculus of environmental risk and reward through the creation of a 'street science' that blends the expert knowledge of researchers with the experiences of community residents. This is a book that makes major contributions to our understanding of urban inequality,the environment, and contemporary culture."—George Lipsitz, Department of Black Studies,University of California, Santa Barbara, author of *American Studies in a Moment ofDanger*Product Details
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Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at University of California, Davis,and the director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis's John Muir Institute for theEnvironment.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger 1
What's Old Is New: Public Health and Planning as Historical Antecedents to New York City's Environmental Justice Activism 27
New York City Environmental Justice Campaigns: Stigma, Blight, and the Politics of Race and Pollution 49
Childhood Asthma in New York City: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Recognition 91
The Racial Geography of New York City Garbage: Local and Global Trash Politics 109
Power to the People? Deregulation and Environmental Justice Energy Activism 143
The Promise and the Peril or, Can Community-Based Environmental Justice Initiatives Reintegrate Planning and Public Health in the Urban Environment? 177
Conclusion: What We Can Learn from New York City Environmental Justice Activism 207
Notes 213
References 245
Index 269