Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago.GARBAGE WARS: THE STRUGGLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN CHICAGO David Naguib Pellow. Five Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142-1493: MIT Press, 2004. (617) 253-5643. http://www.mitpress.org. 256 pp., 8 illus. $16.95 Softbound soft·bound adj. Not bound between hard covers: softbound books. . In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encountered them in the period 1880-2000. What unfolds is a tug of war tug of war n. pl. tugs of war 1. Games A contest of strength in which two teams tug on opposite ends of a rope, each trying to pull the other across a dividing line. 2. among social movements, government, and industry over how we manage our waste, who benefits, and who pays the costs. Studies demonstrate that minority and low-income communities bear a disproportionate burden of environmental hazards. Pellow analyzes how and why environmental inequalities are created. He also explains how class and racial politics have influenced the waste industry throughout the history of Chicago This article is about the history of Chicago, Illinois. Early days At the beginning of recorded history, the Chicago area was inhabited by a number of Algonquian peoples, including the Mascoutens and Miamis. and the United States. After examining the roles of social movements and workers in defining, resisting, and shaping garbage disposal in the United States, he concludes that some environmental groups and people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important have actually contributed to environmental inequality. By highlighting conflicts over waste-dumping, incineration incineration the act of burning to ashes. , landfills, and recycling, Pellow provides a historical view of the garbage industry throughout the life cycle of waste. Although his focus is on Chicago, he places the trends and conflicts in a broader context, describing how communities throughout the United States have resisted the waste industry's efforts to locate hazardous facilities in their backyards. The book closes with suggestions for how communities can work more effectively for environmental justice and safe, sustainable waste management. David Naguib Pellow is Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department and Director of the California Cultures in Comparative Perspective California Cultures in Comparative Perspective is a centre based at the Department of Ethnic Studies, in the University of California, San Diego in California. The California Cultures initiative is expected to "be a cutting-edge center of creative, interdisciplinary Initiative at the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. . |
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