Reclaiming the environmental debate : the politics of health in a toxic culture /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000. |
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| Description: | vi, 356 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Urban and industrial environments |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4290243 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Human Health and the Environment / Richard Hofrichter
- I. Challenging Current Perspectives. 2. The Social Production of Cancer: A Walk Upstream / Sandra Steingraber. 3. Deconstructing Standards, Reconstructing Worker Health / Charles Levenstein and John Wooding. 4. Brownfields and the Redevelopment of Communities: Liking Health, Economy, and Justice / William Shutkin and Rafael Mares. 5. Place Matters / Mindy Thompson Fullilove and Robert E. Fullilove III. 6. Akwesasne: A Native American Community's Resistance to Cultural and Environmental Damage / Alice Tarbell and Mary Arquette. 7. When Harm Is Not Necessary: Risk Assessment as Diversion / Mary H. O'Brien. 8. The Ecological Tyranny of the Bottom Line: The Environmental and Social Consequences of Economic Reductionism / John Bellamy Foster
- II. Shaping Consciousness. 9. Silencing Spring: Corporate Propaganda and the Takeover of the Environmental Movement / Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. 10. The Globalization of Corporate Culture and Its Role in the Environmental Crisis / Joshua Karliner. 11. Selling "Mother Earth": Advertising and the Myth of the Natural / Robin Andersen. 12. Green Living in a Toxic World: The Pitfalls and Promises of Everyday Environmentalism / Marcy Darnovsky. 13. Rethinking Technoscience in Risk Society: Toxicity as Textuality / Timothy W. Luke
- III. Notes from the Field: Community Struggles. 14. Silencing the Voice of the People: How Mining Companies Subvert Local Opposition / Al Gedicks. 15. Bearing Witness or Taking Action?: Toxic Tourism and Environmental Justice / Giovanna Di Chiro. 16. For Generations Yet to Come: Junebug Productions' Environmental Justice Project / John O'Neal. 17. Media Art and Activism: A Model for Collective Action / Branda Miller.