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

By: Waldron, Ingrid [author]Contributor(s): Xwi7xwa Collection Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Winnipeg ; Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2018]Copyright date: �2018Description: x, 173 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781773630571; 1773630571Other title: There is something in the waterSubject(s): First Nation People -- Environmental justice | Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Environmental justice | First Nation People -- Health -- Environmental aspects | First Nation People -- Activism -- Nova Scotia | Racism -- Environmental aspects -- Canada | Environmental policy -- Canada | Hazardous waste sites -- Canada | African Amercian people -- Canada -- Social conditions | First Nation peoples -- Canada -- Politics and government | Canada -- Race relationsAdditional physical formats: There's something in the water.:DDC classification: 363.700971 LOC classification: HC120.E5 | W35 2018Other classification: cci1icc | coll13 Issued also in electronic format

Contents:

The environmental noxiousness, racial inequities and community health project -- A history of violence : Indigenous and Black conquest, dispossession & genocide in settler colonial nations -- Re-thinking waste : mapping racial geographies of violence on the colonial landscape -- Not in my backyard : the politics of race, place & waste in Nova Scotia -- Sacrificial lives : how environmental racism gets under the skin -- Narratives of resistance, mobilizing & activism in the fight against environmental racism in Nova Scotia -- 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. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books & Reports	BCACCS Resource Centre Regular	K71 W25 T44 2018 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	Available		T 2742

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-162) and index

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. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism