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A third edition of this textbook is now available.

This environmental sociology reader emphasizes utilizing the sociological imagination to examine the race, class, gender, and other power dimensions that intersect environmental issues. It includes excerpts from recently published pieces that use various sociological perspectives, especially critical frameworks, to examine a wide range of topics-from the globalization of hazardous wastes and industries to mountaintop removal for mining to the construction of nature in a television sitcom. This second edition, like the first, aims to engage undergraduate students, and includes nine new selections chosen from recent work. A section on social constructionism has been added, and the section on science, risk, and health has been expanded to mirror the increased interest in that field. The new edition also includes a chapter on climate change and new selections in the section on 'Thinking about Change/Working for Change,' which helps students see how individuals can affect the future of the planet through their actions.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Introduction: Environmental Problems Require Social Solutions(p. 1)
• Part I Political Economy
• 1 The Vulnerable Planet(p. 25)
• 2 Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone(p. 38)
• 3 Treadmill Predispositions and Social Responses: Population, Consumption, and Technological Change(p. 51)
• Part II Environmental Justice: Race, Class, and Gender
• 4 Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making(p. 63)
• 5 Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women's Unpaid Labor in Australia(p. 80)
• 6 The Next Revolutionary Stage: Recycling Waste or Recycling History?(p. 93)
• Part III The Social Construction of Nature
• 7 Wild Horses and the Political Ecology of Nature Restoration in the Missouri Ozarks(p. 111)
• 8 Touch the Magic(p. 128)
• Part IV Corporate Responsibility
• 9 Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis(p. 149)
• 10 Corporate Responsibility for Toxins(p. 164)
• Part V Globalization
• 11 The Unfair Trade-off: Globalization and the Export of Ecological Hazards(p. 181)
• 12 Driving South: The Globalization of Auto Consumption and Its Social Organization of Space(p. 200)
• Part VI Media and Popular Culture
• 13 Selling "Mother Earth": Advertising and the Myth of the Natural(p. 215)
• 14 Prime-Time Subversion: The Environmental Rhetoric of The Simpsons(p. 230)
• Part VII Science, Risk, and Health
• 15 Science in Environmental Conflicts(p. 247)
• 16 An Ounce of Precaution(p. 260)
• 17 Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers(p. 268)
• 18 The Social Construction of Cancer: A Walk Upstream(p. 287)
• Part VIII Social Movements
• 19 American Environmentalism: The Role of Race, Class, and Gender in Shaping Activism 1820-1995(p. 307)
• 20 Coalition Building between Native American and Environmental Organizations in Opposition to Development: The Case of the New Los Padres Dam Project(p. 327)
• 21 "People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit": Emotions, Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation(p. 350)
• Part IX Thinking about Change/Working for Change
• 22 Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?(p. 371)
• 23 Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Fashion Ethic(p. 396)
• 24 Greetings from the Non-Barcode People(p. 408)
• 25 Healing the Rift: Metabolic Restoration in Cuban Agriculture(p. 425)
• 26 On the Trail of Courageous Behavior(p. 438)
• Index(p. 455)
• About the Editors(p. 481)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Leslie King is assistant professor of sociology and environmental science and policy at Smith College.

Deborah McCarthy is assistant professor in sociology and anthropology at the College of Charleston.