Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development

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.

• Chapter 1: Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice; Anne Harley and Eurig ScandrettChapter 2: Resisting Shell in Ireland: making and remaking alliances between communities, movements and activists; Hilary Darcy and Laurence CoxChapter 3: ‘No tenemos armas pero tenemos dignidad’: learning from the civic strike in Buenaventura, Colombia; Patrick Kane with Berenice CeleitaChapter 4: No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, Eastern Slovakia; Richard Filčák and Daniel ŠkoblaChapter 5: Tackling waste in Scotland: incineration, business and politics vs community activism; Jennifer MackayChapter 6: An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement; Jonathan LangdonChapter 7: ‘Mines come to bring poverty’: extractive industry in the life of the people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Mark ButlerChapter 8: Ecological Justice for Palestine; Simon I. AwadChapter 9: Learning and teaching: reflections on an environmental justice school for activists in South Africa; Bobby Peek and Jeanne PrinslooChapter 10: The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine; Abeer al-Butmeh, Zayneb al-Shalalfeh and Mahmoud Zwahre with Eurig ScandrettChapter 11: Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people’s movements; Eurig Scandrett, Dharmesh Shah and Shweta NarayanChapter 12: Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health; Kathy Jenkins and Sara MarsdenConclusion; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett

“Riveting accounts of struggles from below for environmental justice, drawn from different continents and countries, some successful and some not, for genuine community development as a process which generates solidarity and collective agency.” Jim Crowther, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh