Environmental Victims’ Movements in East Asia

Saburo Horikawa is Professor of Urban & Environmental Sociology at Hosei University, Japan.Yoichi Yuasa is Professor of Environmental Sociology at Kanto Gakuin University, Japan.Atsushi Hamamoto is Professor of Development & Environmental Sociology at Waseda University, Japan.Masatoshi Sasaoka (1971-2025) was Professor of Political Ecology at Hokkaido University, Japan.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: How to Conceptualize Environmental Victims’ Movements in East Asia “In Our Own Words”.- Chapter 2: Japan’s Grassroots Environmental Thought Born of Victim-centric Movements.- Chapter 3: Development of Environmental Movements in South Korea.- Chapter 4: Environmental Justice in Taiwan: An East Asian Country’s Reflection.- Chapter 5: Environmental Struggles in Contemporary China, 1949-2019.- Chapter 6: Kōgai (Public Nuisance) or Environmental Justice: Problematization of Environmental Pollution in Japan from a Social Constructionist Point of View.- Chapter 7: Environmental Justice Beyond the Language of Rights: An East Asian Perspective.- Chapter 8: In Our Own Words: Decolonising East Asian Epistemologies of the Environment.- Chapter 9: Conclusions: Environmental Justice and Beyond.