For almost 30 years, the environmental justice movement (EJM) has challenged the environmental and health inequities that are often linked with social inequities, calling attention to the disproportionate burden of pollution borne by low-income and minority communities. The successes of the movement have been celebrated, and the EJM's impact on the direction of environmental policy, research, and activism is widely acknowledged. But the literature on environmental justice lacks a real assessment of the movement's effectiveness. This book provides just such a critical appraisal, examining the EJM's tactics, strategies, rhetoric, organizational structure, and resource base. With chapters by both scholars and activists, the book links theory and practice with the aim of contributing to a more effective movement.
Power, Justice, and the Environment looks first at the progress, failures, and successes of the EJM over the years. A comparison with the Civil Rights movement draws some provocative conclusions. The book next focuses on the development of new strategies and cultural perspectives, considering, among other topics, alternative models for community mobilization and alternative organizational structures. Finally, the book examines the effect of globalization on environmental inequality and how the EJM can address transnational environmental injustices.
"The environmental justice movement today is at a crossroads. This book's analysis of the movement's problems and potentials should make it into a stronger and more influential force for environmental change."—J. Craig Jenkins, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Ohio StateUniversity, and Faculty Associate, Mershon Center for International Security
" Power, Justice, and the Environment is a noteworthy addition to the environmental justice discourse. Pellow and Brulle provide telling insights into the causes and persistence of environmental inequality in the U.S. and abroad and chart a course for the environmental justice movement in the new century." Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University,author of The Quest for Environmental Justice
"Pellow and Brulle offer a multisocket 'tool kit for an ecologically sustainable and socially just future.' The book's scope is impressive, analyzing the internal tensions of EJmovements as well as the coercions and seductions of them by national and global institutions."Allan Schnaiberg, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research,Northwestern University
"*Power, Justice, and the Environment* is a noteworthy addition to the environmental justice discourse. Pellow and Brulle provide telling insights into the causes and persistence of environmental inequality in the U.S. and abroad and chart a course for the environmental justice movement in the new century."—Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University, author of *The Quest forEnvironmental Justice*
"Pellow and Brulle offer a multisocket "tool kit for an ecologically sustainable and socially just future." The book's scope is impressive, analyzing the internal tensions of EJmovements as well as the coercions and seductions of them by national and global institutions."—Allan Schnaiberg, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Institute for PolicyResearch, Northwestern University
David Naguib Pellow is Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair in Sociology at the University ofMinnesota. Among his books are the award-winning Garbage Wars: The Struggle forEnvironmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press, 2002) and Power, Justice, and theEnvironment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (coedited withRobert Brulle; MIT Press, 2005.)
Robert J. Brulle is Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science in theDepartment of Culture and Communications at Drexel University. He is the author of Agency,Democracy, and Nature: The US Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective (MIT Press, 2000).
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Power, Justice, and the Environment looks first at the progress, failures, and successes of the EJM over the years. A comparison with the Civil Rights movement draws some provocative conclusions. The book next focuses on the development of new strategies and cultural perspectives, considering, among other topics, alternative models for community mobilization and alternative organizational structures. Finally, the book examines the effect of globalization on environmental inequality and how the EJM can address transnational environmental injustices.
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"The environmental justice movement today is at a crossroads. This book's analysis of the movement's problems and potentials should make it into a stronger and more influential force for environmental change."—J. Craig Jenkins, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Ohio StateUniversity, and Faculty Associate, Mershon Center for International Security" Power, Justice, and the Environment is a noteworthy addition to the environmental justice discourse. Pellow and Brulle provide telling insights into the causes and persistence of environmental inequality in the U.S. and abroad and chart a course for the environmental justice movement in the new century." Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University,author of The Quest for Environmental Justice
"Pellow and Brulle offer a multisocket 'tool kit for an ecologically sustainable and socially just future.' The book's scope is impressive, analyzing the internal tensions of EJmovements as well as the coercions and seductions of them by national and global institutions."Allan Schnaiberg, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research,Northwestern University
"*Power, Justice, and the Environment* is a noteworthy addition to the environmental justice discourse. Pellow and Brulle provide telling insights into the causes and persistence of environmental inequality in the U.S. and abroad and chart a course for the environmental justice movement in the new century."—Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University, author of *The Quest forEnvironmental Justice*
"Pellow and Brulle offer a multisocket "tool kit for an ecologically sustainable and socially just future." The book's scope is impressive, analyzing the internal tensions of EJmovements as well as the coercions and seductions of them by national and global institutions."—Allan Schnaiberg, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Institute for PolicyResearch, Northwestern University
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David Naguib Pellow is Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair in Sociology at the University ofMinnesota. Among his books are the award-winning Garbage Wars: The Struggle forEnvironmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press, 2002) and Power, Justice, and theEnvironment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (coedited withRobert Brulle; MIT Press, 2005.)
Robert J. Brulle is Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science in theDepartment of Culture and Communications at Drexel University. He is the author of Agency,Democracy, and Nature: The US Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective (MIT Press, 2000).
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