Resisting Global Toxics

"This is the book many of us have been waiting for. While linking the global South and North, and drawing from a deep well of activist, academic, legal, and regulatory literatures, Pellow interrogates the unequal and deeply racialized relations embedded in the trading and dumping of hazardous wastes in poor communities and communities of color. Through critical advocacy research, he also charts the increasing sophistication of the resistance, namely the emerging transnational environmental justice movement networks, who are using a rights-based discourse to mobilize across national borders, and along racial, cultural, and class lines." Julian Agyeman, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University "David Pellow has written a book that brings together a sophisticated understanding of the global economic system and the evolving transnational environmental justice movement. His study treats race and class seriously and non-reductively. Anyone who wants to understand the forces that are shaping our understanding of environmentalism should turn to this book."Gerald Torres , Co-author, The Miner"s Canary, Bryant Smith Chair, University of Texas Law School " Resisting Global Toxics provides a path breaking synthesis of the intersection of health, environment, and justice impacts of industrialization in the era of globalization. The book provides a rich blend of theoretical and activist perspectives and highlights the role of NGOs that are working to fill in the gaps in the absence of effective global governance. By drawing on his research and participation with grass roots groups, David Pellow is able to document a compelling and grounded form of global citizenship through the prism of race and class consciousness. He shows how local and transnational groups around the world are strategically addressing the full life-cycle impacts of globalizationfrom hazardous production through hazardous waste disposal. As he says, "Transnational environmental justice offenses require transnational responses." This book provides authentic and compelling examples of such responses that are making real impacts."Ted Smith , founder and Senior Strategist, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition; Coordinator of International Campaign for Responsible Technology