Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone

Auteur

Julie K. Maldonado is Director of Research for the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN) and a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California-Santa Barbara, USA. She works with the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and co-facilitates "Rising Voices: Collaborative Science with Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Solutions". Her work focuses on climate adaptation, disasters, displacement, resettlement, and environmental and climate justice.

Résumé

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnography 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 only physical processes but as part of wider socio-political and historical contexts. The book is valuable reading for students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies and disaster studies as well as public policy and planning.

Contenu

Introduction

1. A Climate of Change

2. Entrée into Coastal Louisiana: Seeing the Unexpected

3. Co-occurring and Accumulating Disasters

4. A Legacy of Atrocities: Establishing an Energy Sacrifice Zone

5. Corexit to Forget It: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster

6. Adaptation and Resistance

7. Community-Led Resettlement: Obstacles, Challenges, and Opportunities

8. A Call to Action: We Have Got to Slow the Rising Tide

Conclusion

Appendix: Additional Resources