Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development

by Zayneb al-Shalalfeh (Contribution by), Sara Marsden (Contribution by), Shweta Narayan (Contribution by), Dharmesh Shah (Contribution by), Mahmoud Soliman Zwahre (Contribution by)

Overview

Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships. Written by a wide range of international scholars and activists, contributors explore these dynamics and the opportunities for agency and solidarity. They critique the practice of community development professionals, academics, trade union organisers, social movements and activists and inform those engaged in the pursuit of justice as community, development and environment interact.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447350859
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2019
Series:	Rethinking Community Development
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Anne Harley is a Lecturer in Adult education and development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Previously, she undertook research for the National Land Commission, and the Black Sash. Anne also heads up the Paulo Freire project in the Adult Education discipline. Eurig Scandrett is a Senior Lecturer in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University, Scotland and a trade union representative with Universityand College Union. He previously worked in environmental biology, community work, adult education and was Head of Community Action at Friends of the Earth Scotland.

Table of Contents

List of figures ix

Series editors' preface xi

Preface xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Notes on contributors xvii

Abbreviations xxiii

1 Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice Anne Harley Eurig Scandrett 1

2 Resisting Shell in Ireland: making and remaking alliances between communities, movements and activists Hilary Darcy Laurence Cox 15

3 'No tenemos armas pero tenemos dignidad': learning from the civic strike in Buenaventura, Colombia Patrick Kane Berenice Celeyta 29

4 No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, eastern Slovakia Richard Filcák Daniel Škobla 53

5 Tackling waste in Scotland: incineration, business and politics vs community activism Jennifer Mackay 69

6 An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement Jonathan Langdon 83

7 'Mines come to bring poverty': extractive industry in the life of the people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mark Butler 101

8 Ecological justice for Palestine Simon I. Awad 117

9 Learning and teaching: reflections on an environmental justice school for activists in South Africa Bobby Peek Jeanne Prinsloo 135

10 The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine Abeer al-Butmeh Zayneb al-Shalalfeh Mahmoud Zwahre Eurig Scandrett 153

11 Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people's movements Eurig Scandrett Dharmesh Shah Shweta Narayan 173

12 Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health Kathy Jenkins Sara Marsden 189

Conclusion Anne Harley Eurig Scandrett 211

Index 219

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From the Publisher

“Riveting accounts of struggles from below for environmental justice, drawn from different continents and countries, some successful and some not, for genuine community development as a process which generates solidarity and collective agency.” Jim Crowther, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh