Spaces of Environmental Justice (eBook)

Ryan Holifield is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His research focuses on the nexus between social justice and urban sustainability, with a particular interest in dimensions of environmental justice and injustice in the process of hazardous waste site remediation and risk assessment. Michael Porter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research explores the discourses of brownfields and environmental justice in the context of urban socio-spatial change. Gordon Walker is Chair of Environment, Risk and Justice in the Geography Division, Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social and spatial dimensions of environmental and risk issues. He has investigated patterns of various forms of environmental inequality in the UK (air quality, flood risk, waste, green space) and explored the meanings and geographies of environmental justice in different settings. Current research is focusing on the social and justice dimensions of energy technologies and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction.

1. Spaces of Environmental Justice: Frameworks for Critical
Engagement (Ryan Holifield, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Michael Porter, City University of New York Graduate Centre; and
Gordon Walker, Lancaster University).

Part I: Frameworks for Critical Environmental Justice
Research.

1. Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple
Spatialities of Environmental Justice (Gordon Walker, Lancaster
University).

2. Actor-Network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental
Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology
(Ryan Holifield, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

3. Gendered Geographies of Environmental Justice (Susan
Buckingham and Rakibe Kulcur both Brunel University).

4. Acknowledging the Racial State: An Agenda for Environmental
Justice Research (Hilda Kurtz, University of Georgia).

Part II: Spaces for Critical Environmental Justice
Research.

5. Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re-Imagination of the
Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana (Petra Tschakert, The
Pennsylvania State University).

6. Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to
Investigate Waste-Related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination
Communities (Zoë A. Meletis, University of Northern British
Columbia and Lisa M. Campbell, Duke University).

7. Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of
Environmental Justice in North-East England (Karen Bickerstaff,
Durham University and Julian Agyeman, Tufts University).

8. Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-Natures
and the Politics of Scale in the Delta (Julie Sze, Jonathan
London, Fraser Shilling, Gerardo Gambirazzio, Trina Filan, and Mary
Cadenasso all University of California-Davis).

Index.