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From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region
Diane Sicotte
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Description for From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Nature, Society, and Culture
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813574202
SKU
V9780813574202
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Ref
99-50
About Diane Sicotte
DIANE SICOTTE is an associate professor of sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on environmental justice.
Reviews for From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region
"Strong, innovative, and timely, From Workshop to Waste Magnet beautifully demonstrates the necessity of understanding the dynamism of environmental inequality struggles. A truly important and ambitious book."
David N. Pellow
University of California, Santa Barbara
"From Workshop to Waste Magnet provides a rich analysis of how structures of class power and white privilege are the root causes of environmental ... Read more
David N. Pellow
University of California, Santa Barbara
"From Workshop to Waste Magnet provides a rich analysis of how structures of class power and white privilege are the root causes of environmental ... Read more