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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldron, Ingrid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Canada.

Environmental policy.

Equality.

Indigenous peoples.

Politics and government.

Black people.

Hazardous waste sites.

Canada.

Hazardous waste sites--Canada.

Black people--Canada--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples--Canada--Politics and government.

Racism--Canada.

Racism.

Equality--Canada.

Canada--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 173 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

There is something in the water

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg ; Black Point : Fernwood Publishing, [2018].

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-162) and index.

Other Format:

Waldron, Ingrid, author. There's something in the water.:

ISBN:

9781773630571

1773630571

OCLC:

1035322067

Publisher Number:

99976723535