Environmental Sociology: From Analysis To Action

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Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action illustrates how sociological perspectives can help us better understand the causes and consequences of environmental problems and provides examples of efforts to ameliorate these problems. The fourth edition of this environmental sociology reader includes 22 edited excerpts (10 of them new to this edition) that address, among other things, environmental inequalities, knowledge creation, media, and perspectives on disaster. The selected pieces use a variety of sociological perspectives, including environmental justice, power structure research, ecological modernization, ecological footprint, and more, to examine a wide range of environment-related topics. Environmental Sociology......Page 1 Contents......Page 4 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Preface......Page 9 Introduction: Environmental Problems Require Social Solutions......Page 12 Part I Imagining Nature......Page 34 1 Nature’s Looking Glass......Page 36 Part II Political Economy......Page 44 2 Why Ecological Revolution?......Page 46 3 The Unfair Trade-off: Globalization and the Export of Ecological Hazards......Page 60 4 The Tragedy of the Commodity: The Overexploitation of the Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishery......Page 74 5 Ecological Modernization at Work? Environmental Policy Reform in Sweden at the Turn of the Century......Page 92 6 A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the Ecological Footprint in China, India, Japan, and the United States, 1961–2003......Page 108 Part III Race, Class, Gender, and the Environment......Page 122 7 The Du Bois Nexus: Intersectionality, Political Economy, and Environmental Injustice in the Peruvian Guano Trade in the 1800s......Page 124 8 Ruin’s Progeny: Race, Environment, and Appalachia’s Coal Camp Blacks......Page 140 9 Environmental Apartheid: Eco-Health and Rural Marginalization in South Africa......Page 154 10 Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women......Page 170 Part IV Media......Page 182 11 Media Framing of Body Burdens: Precautionary Consumption and the Individualization of Risk......Page 184 12 Legitimating the Environmental Injustices of War: Toxic Exposures and Media Silence in Iraq and Afghanistan......Page 202 Part V Disaster......Page 216 13 The BP Disaster as an Exxon Valdez Rerun......Page 218 14 Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis......Page 226 15 Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods......Page 238 Part VI Social Movements......Page 248 16 People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit: Emotions, Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation......Page 250 17 Environmental Threats and Political Opportunities: Citizen Activism in the North Bohemian Coal Basin......Page 265 18 Politics by Other Greens: The Importance of Transnational Environmental Justice Movement Networks......Page 283 Part VII Changes in Progress......Page 298 19 Ontologies of Sustainability in Ecovillage Culture: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Community, and Consciousness......Page 300 20 Plans for Pavement or for People? The Politics of Bike Lanes on the “Paseo Boricua” in Chicago, Illinois......Page 314 21 Campus Alternative Food Projects and Food Service Realities: Alternative Strategies......Page 329 22 From the New Ecological Paradigm to Total Liberation: The Emergence of a Social Movement Frame......Page 342 Index......Page 359