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3 Crude justice
Community-based research amid oil development in South Los Angeles
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Bhavna Shamasunder
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables viii
- List of contributors ix
- Acknowledgments xii
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Introduction 1
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Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science
- Introduction to Part I 29
- 1 Toxic trespass 34
- 2 Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis 59
- 3 Crude justice 82
- 4 Environmental injustice in North Carolina’s hog industry 99
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Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice
- Introduction to Part II 119
- 5 The auger 124
- 6 Witnessing e-wastethrough participatory photography in Ghana 140
- 7 Making sense of visual pollution 158
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Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice
- Introduction to Part III 177
- 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups 182
- 9 Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites 199
- 10 Soft confrontation 220
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Part IV: Expanding citizen science
- Introduction to Part IV 237
- 11 Whose citizenship in “citizen science”? 242
- 12 Modes of engagement 267
- 13 Science, citizens, and air pollution 282
- 14 Beyond the data treadmill 301
- Index 326
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables viii
- List of contributors ix
- Acknowledgments xii
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science
- Introduction to Part I 29
- 1 Toxic trespass 34
- 2 Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis 59
- 3 Crude justice 82
- 4 Environmental injustice in North Carolina’s hog industry 99
-
Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice
- Introduction to Part II 119
- 5 The auger 124
- 6 Witnessing e-wastethrough participatory photography in Ghana 140
- 7 Making sense of visual pollution 158
-
Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice
- Introduction to Part III 177
- 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups 182
- 9 Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites 199
- 10 Soft confrontation 220
-
Part IV: Expanding citizen science
- Introduction to Part IV 237
- 11 Whose citizenship in “citizen science”? 242
- 12 Modes of engagement 267
- 13 Science, citizens, and air pollution 282
- 14 Beyond the data treadmill 301
- Index 326