Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice

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MIT Press, 2007 - 282 pages
'Noxious New York' examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatisation, deregulation, and globalisation.

Contents

Activism
27
Stigma Blight
49
The Politics of Gender Race
91
Local
109
Power to the People? Deregulation and Environmental Justice
143
The Promise and the Peril or Can CommunityBased Environmental
177
What We Can Learn from New York City
207
References
245
Index
269
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About the author (2007)

Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at University of California, Davis, and the director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis's John Muir Institute for the Environment.

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