Environmental JusticeBooks

Kate Crawford maps AI through minerals, energy, hidden labor, training data, classification, and state surveillance, revealing the extraction and concentrated power beneath machine intelligence.

Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.

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

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing follows matsutake ecology and trade to show how war, migration, and capital shape precarious livelihoods - and how life persists through damaged landscapes.

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

Harriet A. Washington links environmental racism and toxic exposure to health and cognitive harm, challenging claims that racial inequality is biological.

Through treaties, dispossession, food and water, sacred sites, and Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker rebuilds environmental justice around Indigenous sovereignty.

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

Mary Robinson connects stories from Uganda, Mississippi, and the Pacific to climate justice, gendered labor, migration, human rights, and political voice.

Donna J. Haraway’s feminist guide to multispecies life, reproductive freedom, colonial histories, care, and making kin on a damaged earth.

Vandana Shiva extends democracy to land, seeds, water, and community, showing how corporate globalization turns the commons of life into property.

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

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, climate, forests, food and seed struggles to corporate power, ecological debt and the gendered labor that sustains life.

Val Plumwood dissects the masterful dualisms of Western philosophy, showing how human/nature, reason/body, and man/woman turn dependency into a warrant for control.

Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein’s 1990 anthology maps ecofeminism through spiritual, theoretical, womanist, environmental, development, and artistic debates - without resolving their differences.