Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement

“The environmental justice movement today is at a crossroads. This book’s analysis of the movement’s problems and potentials should make it into a stronger and more influential force for environmental change.”–J. Craig Jenkins, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Ohio State University, and Faculty Associate, Mershon Center for International Security “ Power, Justice, and the Environment is a noteworthy addition to the environmental justice discourse. Pellow and Brulle provide telling insights into the causes and persistence of environmental inequality in the U.S. and abroad and chart a course for the environmental justice movement in the new century.” Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University, author of The Quest for Environmental Justice “Pellow and Brulle offer a multisocket ‘tool kit for an ecologically sustainable and socially just future.’ The book’s scope is impressive, analyzing the internal tensions of EJ movements as well as the coercions and seductions of them by national and global institutions.” Allan Schnaiberg, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University “Power, Justice, and the Environment is a noteworthy addition to the environmental justice discourse. Pellow and Brulle provide telling insights into the causes and persistence of environmental inequality in the U.S. and abroad and chart a course for the environmental justice movement in the new century.”–Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University, author of The Quest for Environmental Justice “Pellow and Brulle offer a multisocket “tool kit for an ecologically sustainable and socially just future.” The book’s scope is impressive, analyzing the internal tensions of EJ movements as well as the coercions and seductions of them by national and global institutions.“–Allan Schnaiberg, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

David Naguib Pellow is Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Among his books are the award-winning Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press, 2002) and Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (coedited with Robert Brulle; MIT Press, 2005.)

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