Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Char Miller and Jeff Crane
Building Agency
1. Movements without Leaders: How to Make Change on an Overheating Planet / Bill McKibben
2. An Intersectional Reappraisal of the Environmental-Justice Movement / Brinda Sarathy
3. Power to the People: Grassroots Advocacy for Environmental Protection and Democratic Governance / Cody Ferguson and Paul Hirt
Spatial Dynamics
4. Returning to the Slough: Environmental Justice in Portland, Oregon / Ellen Stroud
5. Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in Modern San Antonio, 1921–1974 / Char Miller
6. When the Sky Opened: The Transformation of Tachikawa Air Base into Showa Kinen Park / Adam Tompkins and Charles Laurier
7. Friendship Park: Environmental Placemaking at the US-Mexico Border / Jill M. Holslin
Healthy Politics
8. From Bomb to Bone: Children and the Politics of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty / Jeffrey C. Sanders
9. Fear, Knowledge, and Activism: Toxic Anxieties in the 1980s / Michael Egan
10. Raising Change: Community Farming as Long-Term Ecological Protest / Jeff Crane
11. Building Sustainable Communities in Los Angeles: Intersections of Worker Power and Environmental Justice / Anna J. Kim and Sophia Cheng
Challenging Resources
12. Confronting Kennecott in the Cascades / Adam M. Sowards
13. Oil and Water: Fracking Politics in South Texas / Hugh Fitzsimmons
14. New Dawn for Energy Justice in North Carolina / Monica Mariko Embrey
15. The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Justice, and US Settler Colonialism / Kyle Powys Whyte
About the Authors
Index