Description
Book SynopsisHow are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future?Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idahotwo states with distinct fossil fuel histories, environmental contexts, and political cultures. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from 106 in-depth interviews and three years of participant observation, Corrie Grosse investigates the ways people build effective energy justice coalitions across differences in political views, race and ethnicity, age, and strategic preferences. This book argues for four practices that are critical for movement building: focusing on core values of justice, accountability, and integrity; identifying the roots of injustice; cultivating relationships among activists; and welcoming difference. In focusing on coalitions related to energy and climate justice, Grosse provides important models for bridging divides to reach common goals. These lessons are more relevant than ever.
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Energy and Political Landscape: Climate Crisis, Extreme Energy, and the
Climate Justice Movement
2. The Organizing Landscape: Research Context
3. Idaho Part 1: Talking across Political Lines by Building Relationships
4. Idaho Part 2: Talking across Political Lines by Agreeing to Disagree
5. Working across Intersectional Lines: Youth Values and Relationships
6. Working across Organizational Lines: Grassroots and Grasstops Tensions and
Possibilities
7. Two Tales of Struggle: Coalition Building against Big Oil
8. Lessons from Measure P and the Megaloads: Native–Non-Native and Latinx-White
Coalition Outcomes
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
