Resisting Global Toxics

Author: David Naguib Pellow
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00352L1DA

Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Every year, nations and corporations in the "global North" produce millions
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Resisting Global Toxics, David Naguib Pellow examines this practice and charts the emergence of
transnational environmental justice movements to challenge and reverse it. Pellow argues that waste
dumping across national boundaries from rich to poor communities is a form of transnational
environmental inequality that reflects North/South divisions in a globalized world, and that it must
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environmental inequality that reflects North/South divisions in a globalized world, and that it must
be theorized in the context of race, class, nation, an

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