Echoes from the Poisoned Well

Sylvia Hood Washington is Founder and Chief Environmental Research Scientist at Environmental Health Research Associates, LLC. Heather Goodall is associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Technology Sydney. Paul C. Rosier is assistant professor of history at Villanova University.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionPart 3 Foundations and Origins of Environmental InjusticeChapter 4 1.Class and Environmental JusticeChapter 5 2.Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An American SamplerChapter 6 3.Fond Memories and Bitter Struggles: Concerted Resistance to Environmental Injustices in Post-War Native AmericaChapter 7 4.My Soul Looked Back: Environmental Memories of the African in America, 1600-2000Chapter 8 5.Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism and Memories of Environmental InjusticeChapter 9 6.Racist Property Holdings and Environmental Coalitions: Addressing Memories of Environmental InjusticeChapter 10 7.Racialized Spaces & the Emergence of Environmental InjusticePart 11 North American Memories of Environmental InjusticeChapter 12 8.Wadin' in the Water: African American Migrant Struggles for Environmental Equality in Cleveland, Ohio, 1928-1970Chapter 13 9.Memories of (no)Place: Homelessness and Environmental JusticeChapter 14 10.Citizens Against Wilderness: Environmentalism and the Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky MountainsChapter 15 11.Urban Renewal and Environmental Justice in New York CityChapter 16 12.Ferrell Parkway: Conflicting Views of Nature in a Mixed Use CommunityChapter 17 13.We Come this Far by Faith: Memories of Race, Religion and Environmental DisparityPart 18 Indigenous Memories of Environmental InjusticeChapter 19 14.Suttesája - From a Sacred Sami Site and Natural Spring to a Water Bottling Plant? The Effects of Colonization in Northern EuropeChapter 20 15.What Lies Beneath? Cultural Excavation in Neocolonial MartiniqueChapter 21 16.Plight of the Rara'muri: Crises in Our BackyardChapter 22 17.Main Streets and Riverbanks: The Politics of Place in an Australian River TownChapter 23 18.Taking Us For Village Idiots: Two Stories of Ethnicity, Class and Toxic Waste from Sydney, AustraliaChapter 24 The Mirrar Fight for Jabiluka: Uranium Mining and Indigenous Australians to 2004Chapter 25 20.Guardians of the Land: A Maori Community's Environmental BattlesChapter 26 21.Local History and the Legitimation of Protest in TaipeiChapter 27 22.Remembering the Mother River: The Impact of Environmental Injustice on National Identity in Contemporary ChinaChapter 28 23.Environmental Justice and Popular Protest in ThailandChapter 29 "Aiee, our fields will be destroyed": Dubious Science and Peasant Environmental Practices in Madziwa, ZimbabweChapter 30 25.Shell International, the Ogoni People and Environmental Injustice in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: The Challenge of Securing Environmental Justice in an Oil-based EconomyChapter 31 26.The Community, Industry and the Quest for a Clean Vaal River 1997-2004Chapter 32 Epilogue

This bold and broad-ranging book presents the pan-global phenomenon of environmental injustice from an historical perspective for the first time. In a volume of well-written and sophisticated analyses, expert authors explore the roots and effects of environmental inequity in societies as different as Finland, Zimbabwe, Australia, Martinique, Taiwan, and the United States. Covering a diversity of urban and rural communities in the developing and developed world, periphery and metropole, indigenous and academic voices are finely balanced. This ambitious collection is innovative in including wide variety and different scales of environmental impacts, including forestry, mining, housing and industrial development, water supply, the effects of pollution and much else. This thought-provoking and instructive book with its interesting mix of perspectives will have wide appeal.