Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development

Anne Harley is a Lecturer in Adult education and development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Previously, she undertook research for the National Land Commission, and the Black Sash. Anne also heads up the Paulo Freire project in the Adult Education discipline.Eurig Scandrett is a Senior Lecturer in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University, Scotland and a trade union representative with University and College Union. He previously worked in environmental biology, community work, adult education and was Head of Community Action at Friends of the Earth Scotland.

“Riveting accounts of struggles from below for environmental justice, drawn from different continents and countries, some successful and some not, for genuine community development as a process which generates solidarity and collective agency.” Jim Crowther, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh

• Chapter 1: Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice; Anne Harley and Eurig ScandrettChapter 2: Resisting Shell in Ireland: making and remaking alliances between communities, movements and activists; Hilary Darcy and Laurence CoxChapter 3: ‘No tenemos armas pero tenemos dignidad’: learning from the civic strike in Buenaventura, Colombia; Patrick Kane with Berenice CeleitaChapter 4: No pollution and no Roma in my backyard: class and race in framing local activism in Laborov, Eastern Slovakia; Richard Filčák and Daniel ŠkoblaChapter 5: Tackling waste in Scotland: incineration, business and politics vs community activism; Jennifer MackayChapter 6: An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement; Jonathan LangdonChapter 7: ‘Mines come to bring poverty’: extractive industry in the life of the people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Mark ButlerChapter 8: Ecological Justice for Palestine; Simon I. AwadChapter 9: Learning and teaching: reflections on an environmental justice school for activists in South Africa; Bobby Peek and Jeanne PrinslooChapter 10: The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine; Abeer al-Butmeh, Zayneb al-Shalalfeh and Mahmoud Zwahre with Eurig ScandrettChapter 11: Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people’s movements; Eurig Scandrett, Dharmesh Shah and Shweta NarayanChapter 12: Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health; Kathy Jenkins and Sara MarsdenConclusion; Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett