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OverviewMoment by moment the evidence mounts that unchecked modern industry is bringing us ever closer to environmental disaster. How can we move away from the brink of extinction, toward a human society the earth can bear? In the thriving popular politics of hazardous waste, Andrew Szasz finds an answer, a scenario for taking the most pressing environmental issues out of the academy and the boardroom and turning them into everyone's business. This book reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste. Szasz follows the issue as it moves from the world of ""official"" policymaking in Washington, onto the nation's television screens and into popular consciousness, and then into America's neighborhoods, spurring the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. He shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. In the growth of this movement, we witness the birth of a radical environmental populism. Here Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from the traditional approach, pollution removal, toward the superior logic of pollution prevention. He discusses the conflicting official responses to the movement's evolution, revealing that, despite initial resistance, lawmakers eventually sought to appease popular discontent by strengthening toxic waste laws. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics in the United States. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Szasz , Bert Klandermans (Free University, Amsterdam)Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Volume: 1.00 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.320kg ISBN: 9780816621750ISBN 10: 0816621756 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 25 February 1994 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"Environmental crisis and the search for a politics that works. Part 1: policy; icon; social movement - hazardous waste in three arenas of political action; routine regulatory failure - the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976; ""toxic waste"" as icon - a new mass issue is born; the toxics movement - from ""NIMBY-ism"" to radical environmental populism. Part 2: reactions - could opposition be neutralized?; discourses and policies of disempowerment; hazardous waste regulation progresses against the conservative tide. Part 3: results of hazardous waste legislation - summing up the policy failures and successes; broader political implications?; environmental populism and the reconstitution of progressive politics."ReviewsAuthor InformationAndrew Szasz is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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