Environmental Sociology : From Analysis to Social Action

Environmental Problems Require Social Solutions

Deborah McCarthy and Leslie King

PART I

Political Economy

1. The Vulnerable Planet 25

John Bellamy Foster

2. Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: 38

An Environmental Sacrifice Zone

Julia Fox

3. Treadmill Predispositions and Social Responses: 51

Population, Consumption, and Technological Change

Allan Schnaiberg and Kenneth Alan Gould

PART II

Environmental Justice:

Race, Class, and Gender

4. Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its 63

Impact on Public Policy Decision Making

Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson

5. Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead 80

Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of

Women’s Unpaid Labor in Australia

Lois Bryson, Kathleen McPhillips, and Kathryn Robinson

6. The Next Revolutionary Stage: Recycling Waste or 93

Recycling History?

David N. Pellow

PART III

The Social Construction of Nature

7. Wild Horses and the Political Ecology of Nature Restoration 111

in the Missouri Ozarks

J. Sanford Rikoon

8. Touch the Magic 128

Susan G. Davis

PART IV

Corporate Responsibility

9. Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis 149

Thomas D. Beamish

10. Corporate Responsibility for Toxins 164

Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

PART V

Globalization

11. The Unfair Trade-off: Globalization and the Export of 181

Ecological Hazards

Daniel Faber

12. Driving South: The Globalization of Auto Consumption and 200

Its Social Organization of Space

Peter Freund and George Martin

PART VI

Media and Popular Culture

13. Selling “Mother Earth”: Advertising and the Myth 215

of the Natural

Robin Andersen

14. Prime-Time Subversion: The Environmental Rhetoric of 230

The Simpsons

Anne Marie Todd

PART VII

Science, Risk, and Health

15. Science in Environmental Conflicts 247

Connie P. Ozawa

16. An Ounce of Precaution 260

Nelta Edwards

17. Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear 268

Weapons Workers

Sherry Cable, Thomas E. Shriver, and Tamara L.Mix

18. The Social Construction of Cancer: A Walk Upstream 287

Sandra Steingraber

PART VIII

Social Movements

19. American Environmentalism: The Role of Race, Class, and 307

Gender in Shaping Activism 1820–1995

Dorceta E. Taylor

20. Coalition Building between Native American and 327

Environmental Organizations in Opposition to

Development: The Case of the New Los Padres

Dam Project

Mik Moore

21. “People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit”: Emotions, 350

Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation

Kari Marie Norgaard

PART IX

Thinking about Change/Working for Change

22. Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? 371

Michael Maniates

23. Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Fashion Ethic 396

Juliet Schor

24. Greetings from the Non-Barcode People 408

Michael Pollan

25. Healing the Rift:Metabolic Restoration in Cuban Agriculture 425

Rebecca Clausen

26. On the Trail of Courageous Behavior 438

Myron Peretz Glazer and Penina Migdal Glazer

Index 455

About the Editors 481