Environmental Justice - Books

Jessica Hernandez centers Indigenous science, critiques Western conservation, and offers land healing through Indigenous knowledge and kinship.

Max Liboiron uses plastic pollution research to show how environmental science can presume access to land, while modeling anticolonial research ethics.

Kate Crawford places AI back into material maps of extraction, labor, data capture, and state power, challenging the myth of immaterial intelligence.

This climate anthology gathers women scientists, policy leaders, poets, and organizers, treating climate action as leadership, grief, and collective imagination.

Harriet A. Washington studies how environmental racism harms Black, Latinx, and Native communities through lead, pollution, toxic exposure, and policy neglect.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker moves from colonization and land incursions to Standing Rock, asking environmentalism to learn from Indigenous sovereignty and resistance.

Kathryn Yusoff critiques Anthropocene narratives that erase slavery, extraction, and racialized geologic violence behind an abstract “humanity.”

Mary Robinson frames climate crisis as poverty, gender, migration, and human rights, showing that those least responsible often suffer most.

Donna Haraway proposes making kin and the Chthulucene, asking readers to stay with multispecies responsibilities rather than flee into rescue stories.

Vandana Shiva relocates democracy in land, seeds, water, communities, and shared responsibility, critiquing privatization and capitalist expansion.

Vandana Shiva connects industrial agriculture, fossil fuel dependence, and climate crisis, centering small farms, seed diversity, and food sovereignty.

Anna Tsing follows matsutake supply chains to study survival, cooperation, and non-linear ecological relations in capitalist ruins.

Naomi Klein argues that climate crisis is not a single environmental issue but a challenge to market ideology, fossil capital, and extractivism.

Vandana Shiva links land, water, forest, seed, and food wars, arguing for an earth-centered political economy.

Val Plumwood critiques human/nature, man/woman, and reason/body dualisms, showing how mastery over nature is tied to gendered and colonial domination.

This early collection records ecofeminism emerging between ecology movements, feminism, and women’s spirituality, including tensions later revised by intersectional critique.