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Verfasst von:	Herrera, Veronica [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Slow harms and citizen action
Titelzusatz:	environmental degradation and policy change in Latin American cities
Verf.angabe:	Veronica Herrera
Verlagsort:	New York, NY
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
E-Jahr:	2024
Jahr:	[2024]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Studies in comparative energy and environmental politics
	Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-0-19-766906-8
Abstract:	Chronicles the struggle against toxic exposure in urban Latin America. By examining cities in Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, Veronica Herrera shows how local movements fighting for pollution remediation can ally with resourced outsiders for impactful change. Moreover, Herrera illustrates how the most successful environmental movements occurred in settings where established human rights movements had previously helped dismantle state-sponsored militarized violence.
	"Slow moving environmental harms are typically ignored or accepted parts of everyday life, particularly in low resource settings in Global South cities. How do communities mobilize around habituated exposure to toxins and initiate policy change for a historically ignored policy problem? The book compares advocacy movements for river pollution remediation in the capital regions of Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. Citizen-led efforts helped create environmental governance through networks that included impacted communities (bonding mobilization) and resourced allies (bridging mobilization). The book argues that bridging mobilization was strongest when bridges had material resources, common pasts, and a more resonant frame for understanding the historically ignored problem of river pollution. This occurred in settings with established human rights movements and center-left presidential administrations that were unaligned with mineral wealth extraction. Through bonding and bridging mobilization, citizen advocacy for slow harms activated the state's regulatory capacity. Citizen action included diverse claims making strategies such as protests, marches, rallies, participatory institutions, litigation, and media campaigns. By unpacking human rights movements as throughfares for environmental activism, these cases shed new light on the struggles for environmental justice in Latin America"--
DOI:	doi:10.1093/oso/9780197669020.001.0001
URL:	Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197669020.001.0001
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197669020.001.0001
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
Sach-SW:	Environment and Ecology
	The environment
K10plus-PPN:	1887102140
	Universitätsbibliothek
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