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Where the Waters Divide - Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada (Hardcover)
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Where the Waters Divide - Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada (Hardcover)
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This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical
understanding of Canada's contemporary "Indian" problem. Where the
Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how
contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation,
austerity measures, common sense policies, privatization, etc.) are
woven through and shape contemporary racial inequality in Canadian
society. Using recent controversies in drinking water contamination
and solid waste and sewage pollution, Where the Waters Divide
illustrates in concrete ways how cherished notions of liberalism
and common sense reform - neoliberalism - also constitute a
particular form of racial oppression and white privilege. Where the
Waters Divide brings together theories and concepts from four
disciplines - sociology, geography, Aboriginal studies, and
environmental studies - to build critical insights into the race
relational aspects of neoliberal reform. In particular, the book
argues that neoliberalism represents a key moment in time for the
racial formation in Canada, one that functions not through overt
forms of state sanctioned racism, as in the past, but via the
morality of the marketplace and the primacy of individual solutions
to modern environmental and social problems. Furthermore,
Mascarenhas argues, because most Canadians are not aware of this
pattern of laissez faire racism, and because racism continues to be
associated with intentional and hostile acts, Canadians can
dissociate themselves from this form of economic racism, all the
while ignoring their investment in white privilege. Where the
Waters Divide stands at a provocative crossroads. Disciplinarily,
it is where the social construction of water, an emerging theme
within Cultural Studies and Environmental Sociology, meets the
social construction of expertise - one of the most contentious
areas within the social sciences. It is also where the political
economy of natural resources, an emerging theme in Development and
Globalization Studies, meets the Politics of Race Relations - an
often-understudied area within Environmental Studies. Conceptually,
the book stands where the racial formation associated with natural
resources reform is made and re-made, and where the dominant form
of white privilege is contrasted with anti-neoliberal social
movements in Canada and across the globe.
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