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There's something in the water : environmental racism in Indigenous and Black communities / Ingrid R.G. Waldron

Author
Waldron, Ingrid
Additional Titles
There is something in the water
Published
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
x, 173 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents
Preface. A rising tide lifts all boats? : strategic inadvertence and other shortcomings of the environmental justice lens in Nova Scotia -- Environmental noxiousness, racial inequities, and community health project : blurring the boundaries between community and the ivory tower -- A history of violence : Indigenous and black conquest, dispossession, and genocide in settler-colonial nations -- Rethinking waste : mapping racial geographies of violence on the colonial landscape -- Not in my backyard : the politics of race, place, and waste in Nova Scotia -- Sacrificial lives : how environmental racism gets under the skin -- Narratives of resistance, mobilizing, and activism : the fight against environmental racism in Nova Scotia -- Conclusion. The road up ahead.
Summary
"In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R.G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies. By and large, the environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia fails to make race explicit, obscuring it within discussions on class, and this type of strategic inadvertence mutes the specificity of Mi'kmaq and African Nova Scotian experiences with racism and environmental hazards in Nova Scotia."--Provided by publisher
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ISBN
9781773630571 (paperback)
1773630571 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-162) and index.
Awards
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, 2019.
Endowment Note
John D. Vairo Libraries Endowment
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