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Comprehensive Exams, Fall 2013Day 2 Reading ListEnvironmental Inequality: Politics and Social MovementsCommittee: Javier Auyero (Chair), Bryan Roberts, and Michael YoungClassic Case Studies of Environmental Disasters and Environmental Justice Movements:1. Brown, P., & Mikkelsen, E. (1997). No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action (Reprint edition ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.2. Bullard, R. D. (1990). Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview.3. Erikson, K. T. (1976). Everything in its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.4. Gaventa, J. (1982). Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (Illini Books edition ed.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press5. Kroll-Smith, J. S., & Couch, S. R. (1990). The Real Disaster is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.6. Lerner, S. (2005). Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.7. Levine, A. (1982). Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People. Toronto: Lexington Books.Politics of Environmental Inequalities and Risk:8. Auyero, J., & Swistun, D. (2009). Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.9. Beamish, T. D. (2000). Accumulating Trouble: Complex Organization, A Culture of Silence, and a Secret Spill. Social Problems, 47(4), 473-498.10. Beck, U. (1998). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Inc.11. Brown, P. (1995). Race, Class, and Environmental Health: A Review and Systematization of the Literature. Environmental Research, 69, 15-30.12. Edelstein, M. R. (2004). Contaminated Communities: Coping with Residential Toxic Exposure (Second Edition ed.). Boulder, CO: Westview.13. Gunter, V. J., & Kroll-Smith, S. (Eds.). (2006). Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies. SAGE Publications.Excerpts: Ch.1 – “When Environment and Communities Collide”; Ch. 4 – “The Problem of Uncertain Knowledge”; Ch. 5 – “Perceptions of Fairness”; Ch. 6 – “Oppositional Activity and Social Capital”14. Kroll-Smith, S., Brown, P., & Gunter, V. J. (Eds.). (2000). Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine. New York, NY: New York University Press.Excerpts:Part 5: Toxins in the Community-- Peter Phillimore, Suzanne Moffatt, Eve Hudson, & Dawn Downey. “Pollution, Politics and Uncertainty: Environmental Epidemiology in North-East England”-- Barbara Berney, “Round and Round it Goes: The Epidemiology of Childhood Lead Poisoning, 1950-1990”-- Patricia Widener, “Lead Contamination in the 1990s and Beyond: A Follow-Up”-- Veena Das, “Suffering, Legitimacy & Healing: The Bhopal Case, Critical Events”15. Pellow, D. N. (2000). Environmental Inequality Formation: Toward a Theory of Environmental Injustice. American Behavioral Scientist, 43, 581-601.16. Petryna, A. (2002). Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.17. Pulido, L. (2000). Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 12-40.18. Pulido, L. (2006). A Critical Review of the Methodology of Environmental Racism Research. Antipode, 28(2), 142-159.19. Szasz, A., & Meuser, M. (1997). Environmental Inequalities: Literature Review and Proposals for New Directions in Research and Theory. Current Sociology, 45(3), 99-120.20. Tierney, K. J. (1999). Toward a Critical Sociology of Risk. Sociological Forum, 14(2), 215-242.Environmental Justice/Racism Movements:21. Cable, S., & Benson, M. (1993). Acting locally: Environmental injustice and the emergence of grass-roots environmental organizations. Social Problems, 40(4), 464-475.22. Capek, S. M. (1993). The "Environmental Justice" Frame: A Conceptual Discussion and an Application. Social Problems, 40, 5-24.23. Cole, L. W., & Foster, S. R. (2001). From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York, NY: New York University Press24. Jasper, J. (1997). The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Excerpt: Part Two: Ch.5 “Not in Our Backyards: Emotion, Threat, and Blame,” 25. Krauss, C. (1993). Women and toxic waste protests: Race, class and gender as resources of resistance. Qualitative Sociology, 16(3), 247-261.26. Kroll-Smith, S., Brown, P., & Gunter, V. J. (Eds.). (2000). Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine. New York, NY: New York University Press.Excerpts:Part 7: Citizen Responses to Contested Medicine-- Phil Brown, “Popular Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamination: Lay and Professional Ways of Knowing”-- Stephen Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith, “Environmental Movements and Expert Knowledge: Evidence for a New Populism”27. McAdam, D., & Schaffer Boudet, H. (2012). Putting Social Movements in Their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000-2005. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.28. Pellow, D. N. (2001). Environmental Justice and the Political Process: Movements, Corporations, and the State. Sociological Quarterly, 42, 47-67.29. Pellow, D.N. (2002). Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.30. Pellow, D. N., & Brulle, R. J. (Eds.). (2005). Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Excerpts:-- Benford, R. (2005). The Half-life of the Environmental Justice Frame:Innovation, Diffusion, and Stagnation, (pp. 37-54).-- Toffolon-Weiss, Melissa & Roberts, Timmons. Who wins, who loses? Understanding outcomes of environmental injustice struggles. p. 77-90.31. Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States. (1987). New York, NY: United Church of Christ.32. Walsh, E., Warland, R. H., & Smith, D. C. (1993). Backyards, NIMBY's, and incinerator sitings: Implications for social movement theory. Social Problems, 41(1), 25-37.Politics of Environmental Inequalities in the Global South/Latin America33. Carruthers, D. (Ed.). (2008). Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.Excerpts:-- Intro: David Carruthers, “Popular Environmentalism and Social Justice in Latin America”-- Part I: Environmental Justice in Latin America: Global and Conceptual Challenges-- Juanita Sundberg, “Tracing Race: Mapping Environmental Formations in Environmental Justice Research in Latin America”-- Peter Newell, “Contesting Trade Politics in the Americas: The Politics of Environmental Justice”34. Dwivedi, R. (2001). Environmental Movements in the Global South: Issues of Livelihood and Beyond. International Sociology, 16, 11-31.35. Martinez-Alier, J. (2002). The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub.36. Newell, P. (2005). Race, Class, and the Global Politics of Environmental Inequality. Global Environmental Politics 5(3), 70-94.37. Pellow, D. (2007). Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.38. Schroeder, R., St. Martin, K., Wilson, B., & Sen, D. (2008). Third World Environmental Justice: Introduction to Special Issue. Society and Natural Resources, 21(7), 547-555.39. Walker, G. & Bulkeley, H. (2006). Geographies of Environmental Justice. Geoforum, 27(5), 655-659. ................
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