Mah, A. (2020) Toxic legacies and environmental justice. In: Coolsaet, B. (ed.) Environmental Justice: Key Concepts. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 121-131. ISBN 9780367139933
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Abstract
Learning outcomes • Understand the role of anti-toxic struggles in the environmental justice movement. • Appreciate the environmental justice legacies of particularly significant toxic dis- asters and anti-toxic movements within the United States and globally. • Reflect critically on the uneven public attention given to particular toxic injus- tices, through the themes of “Black Love Canals” and “slow Bhopals”. • Understand the conceptual relevance of “slow violence” and “expendability” for examining toxic injustices around the world
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Mah, Professor Alice |
| Authors: | Mah, A. |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9780367139933 |
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