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There's something in the water : environmental racism in indigenous and black communities / Ingrid R.G. Waldron.

Waldron, Ingrid, (author.).

Summary:

In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies. By and large, the environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia fails to make race explicit, obscuring it within discussions on class, and this type of strategic inadvertence mutes the specificity of Mi'kmaq and African Nova Scotian experiences with racism and environmental hazards in Nova Scotia. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781773630571
  • ISBN: 1773630571
  • Physical Description: x, 173 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Winnipeg ; Fernwood Publishing, [2018].

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-162) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The environmental noxiousness, racial inequities and community health project -- A history of violence : indigenous and black conquest, dispossession & genocide in settler colonial nations -- Re-thinking waste : mapping racial geographies of violence on the colonial landscape -- Not in my backyard : the politics of race, place & waste in Nova Scotia -- Sacrificial lives : how environmental racism gets under the skin -- Narratives of resistance, mobilizing & activism in the fight against environmental racism in Nova Scotia -- The road up ahead.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in electronic format.

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Subject:
Racism > Environmental aspects > Canada.
Environmental policy > Canada.
Hazardous waste sites > Canada.
Indians of North America > Nova Scotia > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > Canada > Social conditions.
Blacks > Canada > Social conditions.
Canada > Race relations.
Native peoples > Canada > Politics and government.
Blacks > Social conditions.
Environmental policy.
Hazardous waste sites.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Canada.
Nova Scotia.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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