Urban Cascadia and the pursuit of environmental justice
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How histories of environmental inequalities and settler colonialism undercut a famously “green” region. In Portland’s harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation for progressive ambitions and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet legacies of settler colonialism and environmental inequalities contradict these ambitions, even as people strive to achieve those progressive ideals. In this edited volume, historians, geographers, urbanists, and other scholars critically examine these contradictions to better understand the capitalist urbanization of nature, the creation of social and environmental inequalities, and the movements to fight for social and environmental justice. Neither a story of green disillusion nor one of green boosterism, Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice reveals how the region can address broader issues of environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the politics of environmental change. |
| Author(s): | Nik Janos , Corina McKendry |
| Document: | Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ] |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Published: | 2021 |
| Physical Description: | vii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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| Contents: | AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Urban Cascadia and the Green ImaginaryNik Janos and Corina McKendryPart 1. UrbanizationChapter 1. Dwelling with the Entwined Ecotopian and Techno-utopian Legacies of CascadiaJeffrey C. SandersChapter 2. The Making of Urban Cascadia: Extending Urbanization through Airplanes, Software, and InfrastructureNik JanosChapter 3. Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and RegionThaisa Way and Ken P. YocomChapter 4. Urbanization and Water Governance Dynamics in Bend and Hood River, OregonAlida Cantor and Alexander Reid RossPart 2: InequalitiesChapter 5. Tales of Three Cities: Urban History, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Survivance in Seattle, Vancouver, and VictoriaColl ThrushChapter 6. A History of Puyallup Fishing ResistanceDanica MillerChapter 7. Our River, Our Future: More-Than-Local Grassroots Activism in the Portland HarborErin GoodlingChapter 8. The Progressive Promise of Reconcilliation in Vancouver's Northeast False CreekGiuseppe TolfoPart 3. GovernanceChapter 9. Against "Seattle-ization": Housing Justice and Activism in the Age of AmazonJannifer L. RiceChapter 10. Conflicting Sustainabilities and the Limits of Localized Green GovernanceCorina McKendryChapter 11. Ecological Democracy and the Duwamish River CleanupMark PurcellChapter 12. Drawing the Thin Green Line: Throwing a Wrench in Carbon Commodity ChainsCorina McKendry and Nik JanosConclusionNik Janos and Corina McKendryList of ContributorsIndex |
| Subjects: | Cascade Range, Cascades, Chaîne des, Environmental justice, Environmental justice Cascade Range, Justice environnementale Cascades, Chaîne des, North America Cascade Range, Urbanisation Cascades, Chaîne des, Urbanization, Urbanization Cascade Range |
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