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Cover Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development

Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development

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Editors:
Anne Harley
and
Eurig Scandrett

This book examines the dynamics of agency and solidarity in the ways in which community, development and environment interact in the pursuit of environmental justice.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
05 Jun 2019
Online ISBN:
9781447350842
Series:
Rethinking Community Development
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447350842
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Front Matter
Front Matter
Series Editors’ Preface Rethinking Community Development
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Abbreviations
One: Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice
Two: Resisting Shell in Ireland: making and remaking alliances between communities, movements and activists
Three: ‘No tenemos armas pero tenemos dignidad’: learning from the civic strike in Buenaventura, Colombia
Four: No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, eastern Slovakia
Five: Tackling waste in Scotland: incineration, business and politics vs community activism
Six: An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement
Seven: ‘Mines come to bring poverty’: extractive industry in the life of the people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Eight: Ecological justice for Palestine
Nine: Learning and teaching: reflections on an environmental justice school for activists in South Africa
Ten: The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine
Eleven: Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people’s movements
Twelve: Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health
Conclusion
Back Matter
Index

Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships.

Written by a wide range of international scholars and activists, contributors explore these dynamics and the opportunities for agency and solidarity. They critique the practice of community development professionals, academics, trade union organisers, social movements and activists and inform those engaged in the pursuit of justice as community, development and environment interact.

Anne Harley is a Lecturer in Adult education and development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Previously, she undertook research for the National Land Commission, and the Black Sash. Anne also heads up the Paulo Freire project in the Adult Education discipline.

Eurig Scandrett is a Senior Lecturer in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University, Scotland and a trade union representative with University and College Union. He previously worked in environmental biology, community work, adult education and was Head of Community Action at Friends of the Earth Scotland.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Policy Press 2019
Hardback ISBN:
9781447350835
Paperback ISBN:
9781447350859
ePub ISBN:
9781447350866
Online ISBN:
9781447350842
Page Extent:
252
Keywords:
activist; colonisation; community development; environmental justice; neoliberalism; popular struggle; social movements
Global Social Challenges:
Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability, The Future of Work, Finance and the Economy
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life On Land
Subject:
Community Development, Community Development, Environment and Sustainability, Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies, Sustainable Development, International Development, International Development
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