Julie Sze, 'Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger' (U California But we can no longer separate loving ourneighbor from loving the Earth on which our very existence depends. Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movementby Jennifer L. Holland tells the story of . We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Environmental justice offers stories of non-naive, radical hope with which to face and mitigate that suffering. Environmental. 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. It is precisely now that imagination and action become essential, Sze argues in the books introduction (Sze, 1). Different chapters in the book discuss important environmental cases, like indigenous land rights in Standing Rock; the Flint, Michigan water contamination case, Hurricane Katrina, as well as key concepts like climate change denial, police violence, just transition, radical democracy, whiteness, skepticism, and optimism. They explain the complexity of the environmental justice movement in the United States. Podcast | Julie Sze, "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" (U Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger Chapter One examines indigenous land rights and sovereignty claims through the protests at Standing Rock. Julie Sze. Sze rightly emphasizes the unique circumstances facing indigenous communities and communities of color with regard to environmental justice. JOIN UP! Julie Sze Author/Creator: Sze, Julie author., Author, Publication: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020] Format/Description: Book 1 online resource (160 p.) Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present ; 11 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. This orientation defined the Book Chat just as it did the book. In Szes words, what environmental justice gives us is a sense of urgency, but also a way out of the urgency through solidarity. Instead of despairing and falling into nihilism, people confronting the suffering of the multiple and often overlapping crises of the twenty-first century and the legacies it encompasses can practice solidarity and effect tangible change. University of California Press She deftly draws on the tools of American Studiesliterature, theory, art, and cultureto unpack and expose the driving forces behind our socioenvironmental crises. Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. Tell us what you thought. Activists often cross temporalities: you know, theyll talk about how their struggles are tied to these broad scales of history. (315) 371-3545 offices All art is political in the sense that it serves someones politics. August Wilson Theatre can bolster the status quo.
