Ryan Holifield & Michael Porter 
Spaces of Environmental Justice [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
1. Spaces of Environmental Justice: Frameworks for Critical
Engagement (Ryan Holifield, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Michael Porter, City University of New York Graduate Centre; and
Gordon Walker, Lancaster University).
Part I: Frameworks for Critical Environmental Justice
Research.
1. Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple
Spatialities of Environmental Justice (Gordon Walker, Lancaster
University).
2. Actor-Network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental
Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology
(Ryan Holifield, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
3. Gendered Geographies of Environmental Justice (Susan
Buckingham and Rakibe Kulcur both Brunel University).
4. Acknowledging the Racial State: An Agenda for Environmental
Justice Research (Hilda Kurtz, University of Georgia).
Part II: Spaces for Critical Environmental Justice
Research.
5. Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re-Imagination of the
Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana (Petra Tschakert, The
Pennsylvania State University).
6. Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to
Investigate Waste-Related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination
Communities (Zoë A. Meletis, University of Northern British
Columbia and Lisa M. Campbell, Duke University).
7. Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of
Environmental Justice in North-East England (Karen Bickerstaff,
Durham University and Julian Agyeman, Tufts University).
8. Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-Natures
and the Politics of Scale in the Delta (Julie Sze, Jonathan
London, Fraser Shilling, Gerardo Gambirazzio, Trina Filan, and Mary
Cadenasso all University of California-Davis).
Index.

Ryan Holifield is an assistant professor in the Department
of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His
research focuses on the nexus between social justice and urban
sustainability, with a particular interest in dimensions of
environmental justice and injustice in the process of hazardous
waste site remediation and risk assessment.
Michael Porter is a doctoral candidate in the Department
of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York. His research explores the discourses
of brownfields and environmental justice in the context of urban
socio-spatial change.
Gordon Walker is Chair of Environment, Risk and Justice
in the Geography Division, Lancaster Environment Centre at
Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social and
spatial dimensions of environmental and risk issues. He has
investigated patterns of various forms of environmental inequality
in the UK (air quality, flood risk, waste, green space) and
explored the meanings and geographies of environmental justice in
different settings. Current research is focusing on the social and
justice dimensions of energy technologies and climate change
adaptation and mitigation.