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Book SynopsisThis book examines the dynamics of agency and solidarity in the ways in which community, development and environment interact in the pursuit of environmental justice.
Trade Review“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
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett Chapter 2: Resisting Shell in Ireland: making and remaking alliances between communities, movements and activists; Hilary Darcy and Laurence Cox Chapter 3: ‘No tenemos armas pero tenemos dignidad’: learning from the civic strike in Buenaventura, Colombia; Patrick Kane with Berenice Celeita Chapter 4: No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, Eastern Slovakia; Richard Filčák and Daniel Škobla Chapter 5: Tackling waste in Scotland: incineration, business and politics vs community activism; Jennifer Mackay Chapter 6: An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement; Jonathan Langdon Chapter 7: ‘Mines come to bring poverty’: extractive industry in the life of the people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Mark Butler Chapter 8: Ecological Justice for Palestine; Simon I. Awad Chapter 9: Learning and teaching: reflections on an environmental justice school for activists in South Africa; Bobby Peek and Jeanne Prinsloo Chapter 10: The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine; Abeer al-Butmeh, Zayneb al-Shalalfeh and Mahmoud Zwahre with Eurig Scandrett Chapter 11: Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people’s movements; Eurig Scandrett, Dharmesh Shah and Shweta Narayan Chapter 12: Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health; Kathy Jenkins and Sara Marsden Conclusion; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett
