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Book SynopsisHow histories of environmental inequalities and settler colonialism undercut a famously green region
In Portland's harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation for progressive ambitions and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet legacies of settler colonialism and environmental inequalities contradict these ambitions, even as people strive to achieve those progressive ideals.
In this edited volume, historians, geographers, urbanists, and other scholars critically examine these c
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"A delightful new contribution to the growing debate on urban political ecology (UPE), especially as it is interested in environmental justice concerns, and at the same time a definitive portrait of a region that has long looked coherent to its residents for ecological, historical, geographical, cultural, and political reasons, but has now gained a clear profile beyond the region itself...Janos and McKendry’s book ultimately presents Cascadia as a—materially humid, watery, and rainy—source of powerful concepts and ideas that have already been formative and will be generative in UPE conversations in years to come."
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Urban Cascadia and the Green Imaginary
Nik Janos and Corina McKendry
Part 1. Urbanization
Chapter 1. Dwelling with the Entwined Ecotopian and Techno-utopian Legacies of Cascadia
Jeffrey C. Sanders
Chapter 2. The Making of Urban Cascadia: Extending Urbanization through Airplanes, Software, and Infrastructure
Nik Janos
Chapter 3. Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and Region
Thaisa Way and Ken P. Yocom
Chapter 4. Urbanization and Water Governance Dynamics in Bend and Hood River, Oregon
Alida Cantor and Alexander Reid Ross
Part 2: Inequalities
Chapter 5. Tales of Three Cities: Urban History, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Survivance in Seattle, Vancouver, and Victoria
Coll Thrush
Chapter 6. A History of Puyallup Fishing Resistance
Danica Miller
Chapter 7. Our River, Our Future: More-Than-Local Grassroots Activism in the Portland Harbor
Erin Goodling
Chapter 8. The Progressive Promise of Reconcilliation in Vancouver's Northeast False Creek
Giuseppe Tolfo
Part 3. Governance
Chapter 9. Against "Seattle-ization": Housing Justice and Activism in the Age of Amazon
Jannifer L. Rice
Chapter 10. Conflicting Sustainabilities and the Limits of Localized Green Governance
Corina McKendry
Chapter 11. Ecological Democracy and the Duwamish River Cleanup
Mark Purcell
Chapter 12. Drawing the Thin Green Line: Throwing a Wrench in Carbon Commodity Chains
Corina McKendry and Nik Janos
Conclusion
Nik Janos and Corina McKendry
List of Contributors
Index
