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100 1 _aSze, Julie,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEnvironmental justice in a moment of danger /
_cJulie Sze.
264 1 _aOakland, California :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c[2020]
300 _ax, 144 pages ;
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 143-144).
505 0 _aThis movement of movements -- Environmental justice encounters -- Restoring environmental justice -- Conclusion. American optimism, skepticism, and environmental justice.
520 _a"We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the US and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does the 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 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 of struggle for the future that we need now"--
650 0 _aEnvironmental justice.
650 0 _aEnvironmental justice
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