Environmental JusticeBooks

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.

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

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.”

Through Ugandan farmers, Mississippi organizers, and Pacific island communities, Mary Robinson reframes climate crisis as a question of gender, poverty, migration, labor, and human rights.

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

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.

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

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