Diane Sicotte: From Workshop to Waste Magnet

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Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.

From Workshop to Waste Magnet presents Philadelphia’s environmental history as a bracing case study in mismanagement and injustice. Sociologist Diane Sicotte digs deep into the city’s past as a titan of American manufacturing to trace how only a few communities came to host nearly all of the area’s polluting and waste disposal land uses. By examining the complex interactions among economic decline, federal regulations, local politics, and shifting ethnic demographics, she not only dissects what went wrong in Philadelphia but also identifies lessons for environmental justice activism today.

Sicotte’s research tallies both the environmental and social costs of industrial pollution, exposing the devastation that occurs when mass quantities of society’s wastes mix with toxic levels of systemic racism and economic inequality. From Workshop to Waste Magnet is a compelling read for anyone concerned with the health of America’s cities and the people who live in them.

Über den Autor

DIANE SICOTTE is an associate professor of sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on environmental justice.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 2010

2 Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality

3 The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia

4 Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 1969

5 From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Burdening After 1970

6 Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region

7 Toward a “Rustbelt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality

Appendix

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780813574196
ISBN-10:	0813574196
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sicotte, Diane
Hersteller:	Rutgers University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	230 x 154 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Diane Sicotte
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.09.2016
Gewicht:	0,445 kg