Book review: Walker, Gordon. 2012: Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Alfranca
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice

Book Review: From the inside out: The fight for environmental justice within government agencies by Jill Harrison

2022 ◽  
pp. 194277862110614
Author(s):  
Lindsey Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Trump Administration

In From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies (MIT Press, 2019), Jill Harrison offers a nuanced study of why U.S. state agencies fail at implementing robust environmental justice (EJ) policies. Through a rigorous interview and ethnographic based methodology Harrison details the discourses, ideologies, and everyday practices and through which government agency staff, daily, undermine and even outright reject EJ policies and programs. The book is a richly empirical study that makes valuable contributions to academic and activist understandings of the government's failure to respond meaningfully to environmental injustices, and offers specific recommendations for how to reform government agencies. It is a timely monograph as EJ advocates seek to reimagine government agencies in the wake of the Trump administration, and in the context of an expanded public consciousness of racism following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent uprisings during the summer of 2020.

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