Environmental sociology : from analysis to action

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Environmental sociology : from analysis to action / edited by Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy.

King, Leslie, 1959- (Added Author). Auriffeille, Deborah McCarthy, 1966- (Added Author).

Summary:

This environmental sociology reader emphasizes utilizing the sociological imagination to examine the race, class, gender, and other power dimensions that intersect environmental issues. It includes excerpts from recently published pieces that use various sociological perspectives, especially critical frameworks, to examine a wide range of topics-from the globalization of hazardous wastes and industries to mountaintop removal for mining to the construction of nature in a television sitcom. This second edition, like the first, aims to engage undergraduate students, and includes nine new selections chosen from recent work. A section on social constructionism has been added, and the section on science, risk, and health has been expanded to mirror the increased interest in that field. The new edition also includes a chapter on climate change and new selections in the section on 'Thinking about Change/Working for Change,' which helps students see how individuals can affect the future of the planet through their actions.

Record details

ISBN: 074253507X
ISBN: 9780742535077
ISBN: 0742535088
ISBN: 9780742535084
Physical Description: xxx, 487 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction : environmental problems require social solutions / Deborah McCarthy, Leslie King -- Vulnerable planet / John Bellamy Foster -- Mountaintop removal in West Virginia : an environmental sacrifice zone / Julia Fox -- People of the forest against international capitalism : systemic and anti-systemic forces in the battle for the preservation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest / Luiz C. Barbosa -- Tourism, environmentalism, and cultural survival in Quintana Roo / Oriol Pi-Sunyer, R. Brooke Thomas -- Treadmill predispositions and social responses : population, consumption, and technological change / Allan Schnaiberg, Kenneth Alan Gould -- Oakland's Fruitvale transit village : building an environmentally sound vehicle for neighborhood revitalization / William A. Shutkin -- American environmentalism : the role of race, class, and gender in shaping activism 1820-1995 / Dorceta E. Taylor -- Turning public issues into private troubles : lead contamination, domestic labor, and the exploitation of women's unpaid labor in Australia / Lois Bryson, Kathleen McPhillips, Kathryn Robinson -- Environmental justice : grassroots activism and its impact on public policy decision making / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson -- Forty years of spotted owls? : a longitudinal analysis of logging industry job losses / William R. Freudenburg, Lisa J. Wilson, Daniel J. O'Leary -- Next revolutionary stage : recycling waste or recycling history? / David N. Pellow -- Silent spill : the organization of an industrial crisis / Thomas D. Beamish -- Corporate responsibility for toxins / Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner -- Tangled routes : women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail / Deborah Barndt.

Driving south : the globalization of auto consumption and its social organization of space / Peter Freund, George Martin -- Environmental justice movement : equitable allocation of the costs and benefits of environmental management outcomes / David N. Pellow, Adam Weinberg, Allan Schnaiberg -- Touch the magic / Susan G. Davis -- Nature of future myths : environmental discourse in science fiction film, 1950-1999 / Christopher W. Podeschi -- Selling "Mother Earth" : advertising and the myth of the natural / Robin Andersen -- Social construction of cancer : a walk upstream / Sandra Steingraber -- Science in environmental conflicts / Connie P. Ozawa -- Risk and recruitment : patterns of social mobilization in a government town / Thomas E. Shriver -- Transnational protest and the corporate planet : the case of Mitsubishi Corporation versus the Rainforest Action Network / Boris Holzer -- Coalition building between Native American and environmental organizations in opposition to development : the case of the New Los Padres Dam project / Mik Moore -- Hunting and the politics of identity in Ontario / Thomas Dunk -- Special moment in history : the future of population / Bill McKibben -- Cuba : a successful case study of sustainable agriculture / Peter M. Rosset -- Cleaning the closet : toward a new fashion ethic / Juliet Schor -- On the trail of courageous behavior / Myron Peretz Glazer, Penina Migdal Glazer.