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Seeking justice in an energy sacrifice zone : standing on vanishing land in coastal Louisiana / Julie K. Maldonado.

Author/creator Maldonado, Julie Koppel author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Copyright Notice ©2019
Descriptionxiv, 175 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction -- A Climate of Change -- Entrée into Coastal Louisiana : Seeing the Unexpected -- Co-occurring and Accumulating Disasters -- A Legacy of Atrocities : Establishing an Energy Sacrifice Zone -- Corexit to Forget It : The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster -- Adaptation and Resistance -- Community Resettlement : Obstacles, Challenges, and Opportunities -- A Call to Action : "We Have Got to Slow the Rising Tide" -- Conclusion.
Scope and content "Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnographic examination of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana, USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective, Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles, Grand Caillou/Dulac, and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide ranging displacement effects, she argues that changes to climate and ecology should not be viewed in isolation as just physical processes but as part of wider socio-political contexts. Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is useful reading for students of environmental anthropology, as well as those taking other environmental and socio-political courses."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 152-168) and index.
ISBN9781629584003 (hardback)
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ISBN9781629584010 (paperback)
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Joyner General Stacks GF504 .L8 M353 2019 ✔ Available Place Hold