Synopses & Reviews
We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does this moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles?
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packed with cautiously hopeful stories for the future.
Review
"Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger is breathtaking in
its scope and ambition. The book covers climate politics, police
violence, Indigenous struggles for land, and so much more. Only Julie
Sze could have pulled this off. There is nothing quite like it, and
there is no one writing today about environmental justice whom I would
rather read." David Correia, author of
Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico
Review
"Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger offers a powerful
vision of environmental justice that can guide us in this time of
crisis. Drawing on recent struggles — at Standing Rock, in Flint,
Michigan, in California's Central Valley, and in places hit by
catastrophic hurricanes — Sze argues that environmental justice can best
be understand as a 'structure of feeling.' Her approach offers an urgent
reconceptualization of environmental justice that draws on the early
promise of the movement while addressing the precipice we are
on." Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, University of
Oregon
Review
"Local, front-line struggles
like the ones profiled here have long embodied — and continue to
prope — our collective fight for a better society. If you want to
understand how, let this book immerse you in the many worlds of
environmental justice." Naomi Klein, author of
On Fire and
This Changes Everything
Synopsis
"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."--Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does this moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles?
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packed with cautiously hopeful stories for the future.
About the Author
Julie Sze is
Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Environmental
Justice Project at the University of California, Davis. She has
authored and edited three books and numerous articles on environmental
justice and inequality, culture and environment, and urban and community
health and activism.