Spaces of Environmental Justice

Notes on Contributors. Introduction. 1. Spaces of Environmental Justice: Frameworks for Critical Engagement ( Ryan Holifield, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Michael Porter, City University of New York Graduate Centre; and Gordon Walker, Lancaster University ). Part I: Frameworks for Critical Environmental Justice Research. 1. Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple Spatialities of Environmental Justice ( Gordon Walker, Lancaster University ). 2. Actor-Network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology ( Ryan Holifield, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ). 3. Gendered Geographies of Environmental Justice ( Susan Buckingham and Rakibe Kulcur both Brunel University ). 4. Acknowledging the Racial State: An Agenda for Environmental Justice Research ( Hilda Kurtz, University of Georgia ). Part II: Spaces for Critical Environmental Justice Research. 5. Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re-Imagination of the Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana ( Petra Tschakert, The Pennsylvania State University ). 6. Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to Investigate Waste-Related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination Communities ( Zoe A. Meletis, University of Northern British Columbia and Lisa M. Campbell, Duke University ). 7. Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of Environmental Justice in North-East England ( Karen Bickerstaff, Durham University and Julian Agyeman, Tufts University ). 8. Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-Natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta ( Julie Sze, Jonathan London, Fraser Shilling, Gerardo Gambirazzio, Trina Filan, and Mary Cadenasso all University of California-Davis ). Index.