Slow harms and citizen action environmental degradation and policy change in Latin American cities / Veronica Herrera.
| Author/creator | Herrera, Veronica Maria Sol |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024] |
| Description | xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies comparative energy and environmental politics |
| Contents | The politics of slow harms in the Latin American city -- Slow harms : ubiquity and invisibility in the Global South -- Expansive policy shifts in Argentina : the power of strong bonds with strong bridges -- Stagnated policy shifts in Colombia : on strong bonds with weak bridges -- Uninitiated policy shifts in Peru : the challenge of weak bonds with no bridges -- Cities, pollution, and democracy. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023017335 |
| ISBN | 9780197669020 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780197669037 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook other) |