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Echoes from the Poisoned Well - Global Memories of Environmental Injustice (Paperback)
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Echoes from the Poisoned Well - Global Memories of Environmental Injustice (Paperback)
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The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater
awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world
suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes
up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights
from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the
perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized
groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washington's work, on Paul
Rosier's study of Native American environmentalism, and on Heather
Goodall's work with Indigenous Australians to seek out wider
perspectives on the relationships between memories of injustice and
demands for environmental justice in the global arena. This
collection contributes to environmental historiography by providing
'bottom up' environmental histories in a field which so far has
mostly emphasized a 'top down' perspective, in which the voices of
those most heavily burdened by environmental degradation are often
ignored. The essays here serve as a modest step in filling this
lacuna in environmental history by providing the viewpoints of
peoples and of indigenous communities which traditionally have been
neglected while linking them to a global context of environmental
activism and education. Scholars of environmental justice, as much
as the activists in their respective struggle, face challenges in
working comparatively to locate the differences between local
struggles as well as to celebrate their common ground. In this
sense, the chapters in this book represent the opening up of spaces
for future conversations rather than any simple ending to the
discussion. The contributions, however, reflect growing awareness
of that common ground and a rising need to employ linked
experiences and strategies in combating environmental injustice on
a global scale, in part by mimicking the technology and tools
employed by global corporations that endanger the environmental
integrity of a diverse set of homelands and ecologies.
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