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Volatile Places
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A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies
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Artikel-Nr:
9780761987505
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.11.2006
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Valerie Gunter
Gewicht:
376 g
Format:
229x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
At the time Hurricane Katrina struck, Valerie J. Gunter was an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of New Orleans. She spent most of the 2005-2006 academic year as a visiting associate professor at Michigan State University, from which she had received her PhD in sociology in 1994. She has spent over 20 years researching the controversial processed by which environmental issues become registered on community and national political agendas. Articles reporting the results form this research have been published in such journals as Social Problems, The Sociological Quarterly, The American Sociologist, Sociological Inquiry, and Rural Sociology. She is a co-editor of Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine.
Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies is a thoughtful guide to the spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are specifically highlighted. Authors Valerie Gunter and Steve Kroll-Smith begin with a simple observation and offer a provocative case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies.
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. When Environments and Communities Collide2. The Presence of the Past3. Trust and Betrayal4. The Problem of Uncertain Knowledge5. Perceptions of Fairness6. Oppositional Activity and Social Capital7. Social Facts and Brute Facts: Confounding the Social and the PhysicalPostscriptReferencesIndexAbout the Authors