Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice
ISBN: 9780816684779
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Environmental policy; Environmental protection; Green movement;

This book reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste, following the issue as it moves from the world of official policymaking in Washington, onto the nation's television screens and into popular consciousness, and then into America's neighborhoods, spurring the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. Szasz shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics in the United States.


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