Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice
Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material—linked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage—is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics, David Naguib Pellow examines this practice and charts the emergence of transnational environmental justice movements to challenge and reverse it. Pellow argues that waste dumping across national...
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Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.
Acknowledgments viiEnvironment, Modernity, Inequality 1Race, Class, Environment, and Resistance 37Transnational Movement Networks for Environmental Justice 73The Global Village Dump: Trashing the Planet 97Ghosts of the Green Revolution: Pesticides Poison the Global South 147Electronic Waste: The "Clean Industry" Exports Its Trash 185Theorizing Global Environmental Inequality and Global Social Movements for Human Rights and Environmental Justice 225Principles of Environmental Justice 245Abbreviations and Acronyms 249Notes 253References 293Index 325
