Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age

Author:   Thom Davies ,  Alice Mah
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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Pages:   352
Publication Date:   14 July 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Thom Davies ,  Alice Mah
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781526137029


ISBN 10:   152613702
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   14 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction: Tackling environmental injustice in a post-truth age – Thom Davies and Alice Mah Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science Introduction to Part I – Alice Mah 1 Toxic trespass: Science, activism, and policy concerning chemicals in our bodies – Phil Brown, Vanessa De La Rosa, and Alissa Cordner 2 Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis – Barbara L. Allen 3 Crude justice: Community-based research amid oil development in South Los Angeles – Bhavna Shamasunder, Jessica Blickley, Marissa Chan, Ashley Collier-Oxandale, James L. Sadd, Sandy Navarro, Nicole J. Wong, and Michael Hannigan 4 Environmental injustice in North Carolina’s hog industry: Lessons learned from community-driven participatory research and the “people’s professor” – Sarah Rhodes and KD Brown, Larry Cooper, Naeema Muhammad, and Devon Hall Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice Introduction to Part II – Thom Davies 5 The auger: A tool of environmental justice in Ecuadorian toxic tours – Amelia Fiske 6 Witnessing e-waste through participatory photography in Ghana – Peter C. Little 7 Making sense of visual pollution: The “Clean City” law in São Paulo, Brazil – Marina Da Silva Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice Introduction to Part III – Alice Mah 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups: The case of air quality monitoring in a Spanish industrial area – Miguel A. López-Navarro 9 Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites: From the development of a national surveillance system to the birth of an international network – Roberto Pasetto and Ivano Iavarone 10 Soft confrontation: Strategic actions of an environmental organization in China – Xinhong Wang and Yuanni Wang Part IV: Expanding citizen science Introduction to Part IV – Thom Davies 11 Whose citizenship in “citizen science”? Tribal identity, civic dislocation, and environmental health research – Elizabeth Hoover 12 Modes of engagement: Reframing “sensing” and data generation in citizen science for empowering relationships – João Porto de Albuquerque and André Albino de Almeida 13 Science, citizens, and air pollution: Constructing environmental (in)justice – Anneleen Kenis 14 Beyond the data treadmill: Environmental enumeration, justice, and apprehension – Nicholas Shapiro, Nasser Zakariya, and Jody A. Roberts Index -- .

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'Toxic Truths highlights a myriad of threats facing our communities and ecosystems in this post-truth age, then pushes back and moves us forward with an array of examples of how ordinary people are democratizing science and knowledge production, and pursuing effective political action to tip the balance in favor of environmental justice movements across five continents. I am truly inspired by this powerful collection.' David N. Pellow, Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of What is Critical Environmental Justice? 'This is a book about knowledge tactics and politics in efforts to address environmental injustice in settings around the world. It is both a great history and set of cases about environmental justice activism, and an inspiring, creative guide for future work. Kim Fortun, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, and author of Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders -- .


'Toxic Truths highlights a myriad of threats facing our communities and ecosystems in this post-truth age, then pushes back and moves us forward with an array of examples of how ordinary people are democratizing science and knowledge production, and pursuing effective political action to tip the balance in favor of environmental justice movements across five continents. I am truly inspired by this powerful collection.' David N. Pellow, Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of What is Critical Environmental Justice? 'This is a book about knowledge tactics and politics in efforts to address environmental injustice in settings around the world. It is both a great history and set of cases about environmental justice activism, and an inspiring, creative guide for future work.' Kim Fortun, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, and author of Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders 'The contributors to this book have done a sterling job in problematizing how toxically exposed citizens, in the main, remain politically passive actors in the struggle for ecological justice in the posttruth age. Toxic Truths shows how this must now transformatively change: not just through having more citizen science, but having it in different social, political, and scientific forms that support more equitable forms of environmental justice; and not just in those affected communities, but the nonstate institutions that so often support the posttruths politics of the political elite.' AAG Review of Books -- .


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Thom Davies is Assistant Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham Alice Mah is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick -- .

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