In this introduction to the special issue on “The Precarious Nature of Environmental Activism”, I describe my own path to environmental activism and the articles contributed to the special issue. In this special issue we look at the changing role of environmental activism. In particular, the authors focus on how the role of the activist is mediated by one’s relationship to the community or those individuals tasked with making environmental decisions. Relatedly, these papers also look at how activism and the relationship between activist and scholar roles can often be challenging and how many activist-scholars work in changing environments.
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AuyeroJavierSwistunDeborah. 2009. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford Press.
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BullardRobert D.1990. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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DaleyDorothy M.ReamesTony G.. 2015. “Public Participation and Environmental Justice: Access to Federal Decision Making.” Pp. 143–71 in Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government’s Response to Environmental Justice, edited by KonishkD.. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
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FreudenburgWilliamGramlingRobertLaskaShirleyEriksonKai. 2009. Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow. Washington, DC: Island Press.
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GodsilRachelHuangAlbertSolomonGina. 2009. “Contaminants in the Air and Soil in New Orleans After the Flood. Pp. 115–138 in Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina, edited by BullardR.WrightB.. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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HarveyDaina Cheyenne. 2016. “The Discourse of the Ecological Precariat: Making Sense of Social Disruption in the Lower Ninth Ward in the Long-term Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.” Sociological Forum31(S1): 862–84.
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HarveyDaina Cheyenne. Forthcoming. “Social Policy as Secondary Violences in the Aftermath of a Disaster: An Extension to Naomi Klein’s Disaster Capitalism.” Humanity & Society. doi: 10.1177/0160597616632803.
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HarveyDaina Cheyenne. 2014. “Disasters as Hyper-marginalization: Social Abandonment in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.” Pp. 281–308 in Urban Ills: Post-Recession Complexities of Urban Living in the Twenty-First Century in Global Contexts, edited by YeakeyCarol CampThompsonVetta SandersWellsAnjanette. Boston, MA: Lexington Books.
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KleinNaomi. 2007. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Picador.
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KoniskyDavid M.2015. Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government’s Response to Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
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LaddAnthony E.2011. “Feedlots of the Sea: Movement Frames and Activist Claims in the Protest Over Salmon Farming in the Pacific Northwest.” Humanity & Society35:343–75.
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LernerSteve. 2004. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
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LorenzenJanetHarveyDaina Cheyenne. 2016. “Forced In or Left Out: Experiencing Green from Community Redevelopment to Voluntary Simplicity and the Potential In-between.” Pp. 263–74 in Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender, edited by GodfreyPhoebeTorresDenise. New York, NY: Routledge.
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ParkLisa Sun-HeePellowDavid N.. 2011. The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden. New York: New York University Press.
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PulidoLaureKohlEllenCottonNicole-Marie. 2016. “State Regulation and Environmental Justice: The Need for Strategy Reassessment.” Capitalism Nature Socialism27:12–31.
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WoodsMichaelAndersonJonGuilbertStevenWatkinSuzie. 2012. “The Country (side) is Angry’: Emotion and Explanation in Protest Mobilization.” Social & Cultural Geography13:567–85.
