Spaces of Environmental Justice

by Ryan Holifield (Editor), Michael Porter (Editor), Gordon Walker (Editor)

Overview

In this cutting-edge volume, leading scholars examine a diverse range of environmental inequalities from around the world and introduce a pluralistic agenda for critical environmental justice research. Spaces of Environmental Justice explores novel theoretical approaches and neglected spaces of inequality and shows how far the field has moved beyond its original focus on uneven distributions of pollution in the USA. 

The book also considers the influence of critical geographical and social theory on environmental justice studies. A range of possibilities for future research directions are identified, as are the challenges involved in investigating and pursuing environmental justice at a time of rapid economic and environmental change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444399448
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/28/2011
Series:	Antipode Book Series , #25
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ryan Holifield is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His research focuses on the nexus between social justice and urban sustainability, with a particular interest in dimensions of environmental justice and injustice in the process of hazardous waste site remediation and risk assessment.

Michael Porter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research explores the discourses of brownfields and environmental justice in the context of urban socio-spatial change.

Gordon Walker is Chair of Environment, Risk and Justice in the Geography Division, Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social and spatial dimensions of environmental and risk issues. He has investigated patterns of various forms of environmental inequality in the UK (air quality, flood risk, waste, green space) and explored the meanings and geographies of environmental justice in different settings. Current research is focusing on the social and justice dimensions of energy technologies and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vi

Introduction: Spaces of Environmental Justice-Frameworks for Critical Engagement Ryan Holifield Michael Porter Gordon Walker 1

Part I Frameworks for Critical Environmental Justice Research

1 Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple Spatialities of Environmental Justice Gordon Walker 24

2 Actor-network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology Ryan Holifield 47

3 Gendered Geographies of Environmental Injustice Susan Buckingham Rakibe Kulcur 70

4 Acknowledging the Racial State: An Agenda for Environmental Justice Research Hilda E. Kurtz 95

Part II Spaces for Critical Environmental Justice Research

5 Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re-imagination of the Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana Petra Tschakert 118

6 Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to Investigate Waste-related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination Communities Zoë A. Meletis Lisa M. Campbell 153

7 Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of Environmental Justice in North-east England Karen Bickerstaff Julian Agyeman 193

8 Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta Julie Sze Jonathan London Fraser Shilling Gerardo Gambirazzio Trina Filan Mary Cadenasso 219

Index 257

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