EcoPopulism : toxic waste and the movement for environmental justice / Andrew Szasz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szasz, Andrew, 1947-

Series:

Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 1.

Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice.

Environmental protection.

Green movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 216 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste, following the issue as it moves from the world of ""official"" policymaking in Washington, onto the nation's television screens and into popular consciousness, and then into America's neighborhoods, spurring the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. Szasz shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Environmental Crisis and the Search for a Politics That Works; Part I. Policy; Icon; Social Movement: Hazardous Waste in Three Arenas of Political Action; 2. Routine Regulatory Failure: The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976; 3. ""Toxic Waste"" as Icon: A New Mass Issue Is Born; 4. The Toxics Movement: From NIMBYism to Radical Environmental Populism; Part II. Reactions; 5. Could Opposition Be Neutralized? Discourses and Policies of Disempowerment; 6. Hazardous Waste Regulation Progresses against the Conservative Tide; Part III. Results

7. Fifteen Years of Hazardous Waste Legislation: Summing Up the Policy Impacts 8. Broader Political Implications? Environmental Populism and the Reconstitution of Progressive Politics; 9. Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8477-4

OCLC:

614485311