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Speaking for Ourselves

Speaking for Ourselves

Environmental Justice in Canada

Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay and Pat O'Riley

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Imprint: UBC Press

320 Pages, 159.00 × 235.00 mm, 9 charts, 1 map

Paperback
9780774816199
Published: January 2010

£28.99

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The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability has been little studied in Canada.

Speaking for Ourselves draws together scholars and activists — Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, established and new — who bring equity issues to the forefront by considering environmental justice in specifically Canadian cases and contexts and from a variety of perspectives and concerns, including those of women and First Nations.

Prologue: Notes from Prison – Protecting Algonquin Lands from Uranium Mining / Robert Lovelace

Introduction: Speaking for Ourselves, Speaking Together – Environmental Justice in Canada / Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O'Riley, Peter Cole, and Julian Agyeman

1 Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective on Environmental Justice / Deborah McGregor

2 Reclaiming Ktaqamkuk: Land and Mi'kmaq Identity in Newfoundland / Bonita Lawrence

3 Why Is There No Environmental Justice in Toronto? Or Is There? / Roger Keil, Melissa Ollevier, and Erica Tsang

4 Invisible Sisters: Women and Environmental Justice in Canada / Barbara Rahder

5 The Political Economy of Environmental Inequality: The Social Distribution of Risk as an Environmental Injustice/ S. Harris Ali

6 These Are Lubicon Lands: A First Nation Forced to Step into the Regulatory Gap / Chief Bernard Ominayak, with Kevin Thomas

7 Population Health, Environmental Justice, and the Distribution of Diseases: Ideas and Practices from Canada / John Eyles

8 Environmental Injustice in the Canadian Far North: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Arctic Climate Impacts / Sarah Fleisher Trainor, Anna Godduhn, Lawrence K. Duffy, F. Stuart Chapin III, David C. Natcher, Gary Kofinas, and Henry P. Huntington

9 Environmental Justice and Community-Based Ecosystem Management / Maureen G. Reed

10 Framing Environmental Inequity in Canada: A Content Analysis of Daily Print News Media / Leith Deacon and Jamie Baxter

11 Environmental Justice as a Politics in Place: An Analysis of Five Canadian Environmental Groups' Approaches to Agro-Food Issues / Lorelei L. Hanson

12 Rethinking "Green" Multicultural Strategies / Beenash Jafri

13 Coyote and Raven Talk about Environmental Justice / Pat O'Riley and Peter Cole

Index

Julian Agyeman is a professor in and chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Peter Cole is an associate professor of Aboriginal and Northern Studies at the University College of the North. Randolph Haluza-DeLay is an assistant professor of sociology at King's University College. Pat O'Riley is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University.

Contributors: Julian Agyeman, Harris Ali, Jamie Baxter, F. Stuart Chapin III, Peter Cole, Leith Deacon, Lawrence K. Duffy, John Eyles, Anna Godduhn, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Lori Hanson, Henry P. Huntington, Beenash Jafri, Roger Keil, Gary Kofinas, Bonita Lawrence, Robert Lovelace, Deborah McGregor, David C. Natcher, Melissa Ollevier, Bernard Ominayak and Kevin Thomas, Pat O'Riley, Barbara Rahder, Maureen Reed, Sarah Fleisher Trainor, Eric Tsang

This collection is the first major examination of the multidimensionality of environmental equity and injustice in Canada. It should appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the social and environmental sciences, to activists, and to citizens who want to make Canadian society more just and sustainable.
(APADE) Authors and editors are to be commended for bringing together several areas of inquiry, including environmental sociology, First Nations politics, race and ethnicity, urban sociology, rural sociology, and social movements. The collection will prove valuable to a broad range of students and researchers. - Mark C. J. Stoddart (Canadian Journal of Sociology 35 (3))