Spaces of Environmental Justice
Rachel Pain(eds.)- Shows how far the field has moved beyond its original focus on uneven distributions of pollution in the USA
- Considers the influence of critical geographical and social theory on environmental justice studies
- Examines a range of possibilities for future research directions
- Explores the challenges of investigating and pursuing environmental justice at a time of rapid economic and environmental change
Content:
Chapter 1 Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple Spatialities of Environmental Justice (pages 23–46): Gordon Walker
Chapter 2 Actor?Network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology (pages 47–69): Ryan Holifield
Chapter 3 Gendered Geographies of Environmental Injustice (pages 70–94): Susan Buckingham and Rakibe Kulcur
Chapter 4 Acknowledging the Racial State: An Agenda for Environmental Justice Research (pages 95–115): Hilda E. Kurtz
Chapter 5 Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re?Imagination of the Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana (pages 116–152): Petra Tschakert
Chapter 6 Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to Investigate Waste?Related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination Communities (pages 153–192): Zoe A. Meletis and Lisa M. Campbell
Chapter 7 Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of Environmental Justice in North?East England (pages 193–218): Karen Bickerstaff and Julian Agyeman
Chapter 8 Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio?Natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta (pages 219–256): Julie Sze, Jonathan London, Fraser Shilling, Gerardo Gambirazzio, Trina Filan and Mary Cadenasso