Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, Vol 1)

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1. Introduction: Environmental Crisis and the Search for a Politics That Works......Page 12
Part I. Policy; Icon; Social Movement: Hazardous Waste in Three Arenas of Political Action......Page 20
2. Routine Regulatory Failure: The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976......Page 22
3. "Toxic Waste" as Icon: A New Mass Issue Is Born......Page 49
4. The Toxics Movement: From NIMBYism to Radical Environmental Populism......Page 80
Part II. Reactions......Page 112
5. Could Opposition Be Neutralized? Discourses and Policies of Disempowerment......Page 114
6. Hazardous Waste Regulation Progresses against the Conservative Tide......Page 127
Part III. Results......Page 146
7. Fifteen Years of Hazardous Waste Legislation: Summing Up the Policy Impacts......Page 148
8. Broader Political Implications? Environmental Populism and the Reconstitution of Progressive Politics......Page 161
9. Concluding Remarks......Page 173
Notes......Page 178
References......Page 206
G......Page 224
M......Page 225
S......Page 226
W......Page 227