Politics in—but not of—the Anthropocene
Meyer explores the need for a comprehensive politics of climate change.
Meyer explores the need for a comprehensive politics of climate change.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
Sandlos and Keeling explore Indigenous resistance to arsenic pollution. Indigenous communities mobilized knowledge around environmental pollution and its health impacts. The authors show how this resistance to environmental racism is connected to other Indigenous struggles over industrial development and to issues such as land claims, sovereignty, and colonial dispossession.
Erik Loomis discusses the production of working-class masculinity in the US Pacific Northwest, highlighting environmental history’s need to reinstate working people in its studies.
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
Helbert raises the issue of justice in energy transitions by looking at the discrimination faced by women in oil regions of Nigeria.
This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.