EJ Bibliography
By Sarah Frohardt-Lane
== Books == (those with an asterisk were suggested by multiple people)
Julian Agyeman, Robert Bullard, and Bob Evans, eds. Just
Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (MIT Press, 2003)
Julian Agyeman and JoAnn Carmin, Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders:
Local Perspectives on Global Injustices (MIT Press, 2011)
Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun, Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (Oxford, 2009)
Elizabeth D. Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental
Activism (University Press of Kansas, 2008)
John H. Bodley, Victims of Progress, 3rd ed., (Mayfield, 1990)
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai
Undercity (Random House, 2012)
Robert Bullard, ed. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the
Politics of Pollution (Sierra Club Books, 2005)
Melissa Checker, Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town (NYU Press, 2005)
Mark Dowie, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the
Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 1995)
Daniel Faber, Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial
Complex in the Age of Globalization (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)
Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (UNC Press, 2003)
Kim Fortun, Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (University of Chicago, 2001)
Lesley Gill, Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State. (Columbia University Press, 2000.)
Richard Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. (Cambridge University Press,1995.)
Ramachandra Guha, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. (University of California Press, 1989)
Nik Heynen, ed. Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural
Consequences (Routledge, 2007)
Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. In the Nature of Cities: Urban
Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism (Routledge, 2006)
Nancy Jacobs, Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History (Cambridge 2003)
Barbara Rose Johnston, Life and Death Matters: Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, 2nd ed. (Left Coast Press, 2011)
Barbara Rose Johnston, Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis (Island Press, 1994)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (Penguin, 1988)
David A McDonald, ed. Environmental Justice In South Africa (Ohio University Press2002)
John R. McNeill, Jose Augusto Padua, Mahesh Rangarajan, eds. Environmental
History: As if Nature Existed (Oxford, 2010)
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard, 2011)
Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, and Michael Watts eds. Global Political Ecology (Routledge, 2011)
David Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (2002)
David Pellow, Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental
Justice (MIT Press, 2007)
Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl(Princeton, 2002)
Charles Redman, Human Impact on Ancient Environments (University of Arizona
Press, 1999)
Bruce Rich, Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment,
and the Crisis of Development (1994)
Suzana Sawyer, Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and
Neoliberalism in Ecuador
James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998).
Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling, Dangerous Trade; Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (Temple University Press, 2012).
Vandana Shiva, multiple books, see: link.
Ted Smith, David Sonnenfield, David Pellow, eds. Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Eletronics Industry
Andrew Szasz, Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
Gordon Walker, Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics(Routledge, 2012)
Charles Zerner, People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation (Columbia, 2000)
Charles Zerner, ed. Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia (Duke, 2003)
Articles, Chapters, Special Issues, and Websites
Forthcoming special issue of Environmental Justice (October 2012) with articles by
Judith Kimmerling, Sid Harring, and James Allison
GeoForum themed issue: Geographies of Environmental Injustice Vol. 37 no. 5
(September 2006) link
"After Dump, What Happens to Electronic Waste?" NPR December 21, 2010 link.
Vikram K. Akula. "Grassroots Environmental Resistance in India," in Bron Raymond
Taylor, ed., Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical
and Popular Environmentalism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), 127-145.
Joyce Barry, "Situating the Particular and the Universal: Gender, Environmental Justice and Mountaintop Removal in a Global Context" in Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal (Ohio University Press, 2012).
Riley Dunlap and Richard York, "The Globalization of Environmental Concern and the Limits of the Postmaterialist Values Explanation: Evidence from Four Multinational Surveys" The Sociological Quarterly 49 (2008) 529-563
Daniel Faber, "Imperialism, Revolution, and the Ecological Crisis of Central
America," Latin American Perspectives Vol. 19, No. 1, The Ecological Crisis of Latin America. (Winter, 1992), pp. 17-44.
Ramachandra Guha, "The Southern Challenge" in Environmentalism: A Global History(Longman, 2000)
Joan Martinez-Alier, "Ecology and the Poor: A Neglected Dimension of Latin American History" Journal of Latin American Studies 23, no. 3 (1991): 621-39.
Zoe Meletis, research related to ecotourism and environmental justice
Jon Mooallem, "The Afterlife of Cellphones" New York Times January 13, 2008 link.
Jean-Francois Mouhot, "Past Connections and Present Similarities in Slave- ownership and Fossil Fuel Usage" Climatic Change 2011 Vol. 105 Nos. 1-2
Phia Steyn, "The Lingering Environmental Impact of Repressive Governance: The
Environmental Legacy of the Apartheid Era for the New South Africa,"
Globalizations, Vol. 2, Issue 3 (December 2005): 391- 402.
Eduardo J. Viola, "The Ecologist Movement in Brazil (1974-1986): From
Environmentalism to Ecopolitics," International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research Vol. 12, (1988), pp. 211-228. Frank Zelko, "Making Greenpeace: The Development of Direct Action Environmentalism in British Columbia," BC Studies 142/143 (Summer/Autumn, 2004): 197-240.
For links to more resources: BAN
Films
Climate Refugees
The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa
Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia
The Garden