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.
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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.
Professor Kroll-Smith is the Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. He was formerly a research professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans. He has edited and written 5 books on environmental hazards and disasters, health and the environment, and sociologists as expert witnesses. He is the current editor of Sociological Inquiry and the 2004 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution Award in the study of Environment and Technology. Kroll-Smith’s current work is the problem of race, class, and water in New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. He also regularly contributes to the growing scholarship on the sociology of sleep.
Professor Kroll-Smith is the Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. He was formerly a research professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans. He has edited and written 5 books on environmental hazards and disasters, health and the environment, and sociologists as expert witnesses. He is the current editor of Sociological Inquiry and the 2004 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution Award in the study of Environment and Technology. Kroll-Smith’s current work is the problem of race, class, and water in New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. He also regularly contributes to the growing scholarship on the sociology of sleep.
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uses case study of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans,
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Many books in sociology (or indeed any of the sciences) are deliberately written in a passive voice. With the authors minimising any personal passionate viewpoints (or at least the depiction of these). For fear of not offering an objective stance. There are good reasons for this.
Yet here, one of the coauthors, Gunter, writes quite topically about (some of) her personal experiences when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005. She was teaching at a local university. She uses her experiences to illustrate various points in the book. Like a community (or individuals) having trust in government agencies during times of disaster. The US federal response (via FEMA) is used as a pungent case study of inadequacy. Perhaps "betrayal", which is part of a chapter's title, is too strong a word? (Though surely not to some people.) Of course, this very topicality will markedly date the book in a few years. But even these, it might still be usefully read, as providing a contemporaneous reaction to disaster.
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conservancy dispute, local environmental conflicts, other conflict participants, structural betrayal, premeditated betrayal, local environmental controversies, exposure disputes, harbinger role, cultural toolbox, bonding capital, basic descriptive questions, offshore oil extraction, bridging capital, meaningful social connections, siting disputes, powerful social actors, underground mine fire, oppositional activity, bad faith actions, environmental troubles, knowledge disputes, symbolic realism, shrimp trawls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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conservancy dispute, local environmental conflicts, other conflict participants, structural betrayal, premeditated betrayal, local environmental controversies, exposure disputes, harbinger role, cultural toolbox, bonding capital, basic descriptive questions, offshore oil extraction, bridging capital, meaningful social connections, siting disputes, powerful social actors, underground mine fire, oppositional activity, bad faith actions, environmental troubles, knowledge disputes, symbolic realism, shrimp trawls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Volatile Places, Love Canal, The Presence of the Past, Orme Dam, Perceptions of Fairness, New Orleans, The Problem of Uncertain Knowledge, Inyo Independent, United States, Wye Island, Allegany County, Pacific Lumber, Prince William Sound, Exxon Valdez, Owens Valley, Buffalo Creek, Tellico Dam, Northern California, Gratiot County, African American, Mississippi River, Los Angeles, Grand Island, Hurricane Katrina, Environmental Protection Agency Browse Sample Pages:
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