1st Edition

Environmental Justice in North America

Edited By Paul C. Rosier Copyright 2024
410 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

410 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

410 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Emphasizing the voices of activists, this book’s diverse contributors examine communities’ common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matter and Indigenous sovereignty. The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)... Read more

Introduction

Paul C. Rosier

Part 1: Race, Place, and Environmental Justice in the United States

1. Urban Environmental Justice Movements in the United States

Rob Gioielli

2. Resilience at the Periphery: North America’s Non-Urban Environmental Justice Movements

Elizabeth Grennan Browning

3. Intercultural Alliances

Zoltan Grossman

Part 2: Indigenous Movements and Environmental Justice in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean

4. Environmental Justice in Hawaiʻi and Oceania

Kyle Kajihiro

5. Alaska Native Environmental Activism

Holly Miowak Guise

6. Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Beyond: The Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Climate Change Advocacy Work

Lydia Schoeppner

7. Ecocide, Ethnic Rights, and Extractivism: Struggles for Environmental Justice in Mexico

Alessandro Morosin

8. Plundered Paradise: The Puerto Rican Struggle Against Environmental Colonialism

A.J. Hudson

Part 3: Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Sustainability

9. Indigenous Environmental Justice, Renewable Energy Transition, and the Infrastructure of Sovereignty

Kyle Whyte

10. The Food Justice Movement

Justin Myers

11. "We Are Missing Our Lessons to Teach You One": Youth Activists on the Frontlines of Climate Justice

Jerusha Conner

Biography

Paul C. Rosier is Professor of History and Director of the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University. He is the author of multiple books and articles on Native American History and Environmental History and co-editor of two essay collections.

"This volume is a welcome contribution to EJ studies and EJ history that will serve scholars across many disciplines, including history, sociology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, Black studies, and Latin American studies...The chapters will bolster and reinforce lecture materials. Each chapter is readable and clearly argued and has an engaging mix of historical content, historiographical context, and contemporary framing."

Jayson Maurice Porter, HWater, H-Net Reviews, November 2024