Ecopopulism - Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice (Paperback)

In the popular politics of hazardous waste, Andrew Szasz finds an answer, a scenario for taking the most pressing environmental issues out of the academy and the boardroom and turning them into everyone's business. This work reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste. Szasz follows the issue as it moves from the world of "official" policy-making, onto television and into popular consciousness, and then into neighbourhoods, spurring on the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. He shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from the traditional approach - pollution removal - toward the superior logic of pollution prevention. He discusses the conflicting official responses to the movement's evolution, revealing that, despite initial resistance, law-makers eventually sought to appease popular discontent by strengthening toxic waste laws. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Social Movements, Protest and Contention
Release date:	February 1994
First published:	February 1994
Authors:	Andrew Szasz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-2175-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Pressure groups & lobbying Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8166-2175-6
Barcode:	9780816621750

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